Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hooker entrusted last week's performance and his secrets to John Mullholland of Manhattan, brilliant sleight-of-handman, lecturer, student of world-wide magical history. Magician Mullholland was invisibly assisted by Dr. Shirley L. Quimby, apparatus expert, professor of physics at Columbia University. Dr. Hooker's guests were led from his dark panelled home through a small grassy courtyard, into a private chemical laboratory. On the second floor was a tiny impromptu "theatre" which seated about 20 people. The walls were lined with books, many of them on magic...
...cause which Editor-Publisher George B. Lay hit upon seemed germane to the whole state of South Carolina. It derived from a lady living near the centre of the state on Lang Syne Plantation, 40 miles from Columbia. She, Mrs. Julia Peterkin, began acquiring national distinction as an authoress five years ago when she published Green Thursday, followed in 1927 by Black April. All her major characters are South Carolina Negroes, drawn as she has known them all her life on a South Carolina plantation. Not everything that plantation Negroes do is charming or even pleasant to contemplate. But nearly...
Kolster Radio Corp. was formed in 1926* as a merger of several wireless companies. It supplies the radio portion of Columbia radio-phonographs. From it the Mackay (Postal Telegraph) companies buy all their communication equipment, and it supplies a minimum of one-third of the wired radio apparatus used by wired Radio, Inc., a subsidiary of North American Co. (utility serving 932 cities with population of 6,250,000). With these potent customers, and also with an excellent Kolster radio set, it is likely that Kolster's 1929 earnings will exceed the 20? per share figure reported...
Similar sums are bequeathed to seven other educational institutions, including Yale, Columbia, Princeton, the New England Conservatory of Music, Chicago Musical College, the College of Music of Cincinnati, and the Ann Arbor School of Music of the University of Michigan...
...companies and 9 were teachers from other colleges, took the full six weeks' course. The ages of men ranged from 21 to 60 years, but 85 per cent were evenly distributed over the range from 25 to 44 years. From the United States, 26 states and the District of Columbia were represented, with Massachusetts (51), New York (34), and Illinois (23), leading...