Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...board of trustees of the University Film Foundation are a number of Harvard administrators, business-men graduates, and educators. Through an Executive Committee the Board of Trustees will control the activities of the Foundation. The membership is limited, for the present, to 100 persons eminent in fields of Education, Science, Art, Religion, Medicine, Industry and Commerce in this and other countries...
Clarence True Wilson, General Secretary of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals echoed the Anti-Saloon League's prompt exultation (TIME, Nov. 12) and said...
Wafted along by George Gershwin's symphonies, the story is that of a highborn scioness, financially but never socially embarrassed, who wins a treasure hunt and marries a paste-board realtor. So light a continuity suits the demands of airy tunes and jokes, but the moments in which hijackers threaten the treasure hunters, and those in which Leading Lady Lawrence is compelled to grow tempestuous about her silly suitor, do not. With any other actress, the show would be a flop; but Gertrude Lawrence makes it more than acceptable entertainment...
...Word went to the late Gertrude Bell. She sent a call to Professor James Henry Breasted of the University of Chicago, who was at Luxor, Egypt, his headquarters for Egyptian research. He sped to Dura, hastily made photographs and maps. As the result of his recommendations, the General Education Board gave money to dig at Dura. Rewards: rare colored frescoes, fine sculptures, important inscriptions, and best of all-Greek, Latin and Aramaic parchments. Rarely have parchments of the period been found outside of Egypt...
Brother Gus, who is chairman of the board of the Federal Sugar Refining Co. (N. Y.) calls himself a sugar refiner. Brother Rudolph, who is president, calls himself "civic reformer," "banker...