Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trial for Anglomania of School Superintendent William McAndrew of Chicago (TIME, Oct. 17 EDUCATION) dragged on. The Mayor's censor of history books, Urbine J. ("Sport") Herrman, heavy-jowled theatre owner and yachtsman, continued to examine the contents of the Chicago Public Library (which Queen Victoria helped build) for pro-British propaganda. Public Librarian Carl B. Boden, President of the American Library Association, quailed before the mayoral authority, fearing for his $11,000 per annum job. But citizens forestalled by injunction a public burning of the books Mr. Herrman "suspected." The press ridiculed "Chicago's Dayton" and called...
...prevent a rise in the costs to the consumers for the simple and obvious reason that it affects the price of the commodity on the international market. It holds that it is Germany's prime duty to increase her foreign markets in order that she can build up credits abroad for transfer on account of reparations under the Dawes plan. To which the workers answer that such a policy puts the whole reparations burden on their shoulders...
Liver, humblest of meats, is good for anemic patients. Where the bone marrow and spleen do not manufacture sufficient red blood corpuscles to keep a person healthy, he can build himself up on a diet of liver. Liver contains iron in such chemical form that it can be absorbed by the body in the indirect making of the red blood corpuscles. But a diet of a pound of liver a day is necessary. Anemic patients complain: "Doctor, it can't be done. I can't even take liver every day, and certainly not for every meal." The trouble...
...above the Potomac and northwest of the city. Here already functions some appanages of the cathedral Mount Saint Albans National Cathedral School for Boys, National Cathedral School for Girls, a wing of the library, (containing 20,000 books), the college of preachers (for which last week's contributions will build a permanent home). Contemplated are a hall of assembly, a hostel, to accommodate visiting clergymen and scholars, an administration building, a chapter house, and a clergy village for retired rectors...
...opening of football practice this year, and Burns has subsequently vindicated the shift by earning an undisputed berth in the team A backfield. With Moore and French, Burns ranks first among the University punters, and is also a drop and place kicker of merit. He is rugged in build a fast runner, and gives promise of being an effective ball carrier...