Word: columns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every so often all who seek to peer into the English heart must scan the famed "Agony Column" (Want Ads) of the London Times. Last week in a single issue, on a single page, occurred the following revealing and significant ads, each smacking inimitably of Old England...
President Nicholas Murray ("Miracu lous") Butler, of Columbia University, whose "who" in Who's Who runs an entire column, last week stepped into a five-story house on West 117th Street, Manhattan, with young and elegant Baron von Prittwitz, German Ambassador to the U. S. With the Baron was the Baroness...
What would happen if a motor car should run head-on into a marching column of soldiers? Rumanians found out last week. Fifteen soldiers were laid low. Five were able to rise. The other ten were rushed to a hospital, suffering from fractured skulls, broken legs, internal injuries...
...eight games played during the first half of the season the University team has won four, lost three, and tied. In the scoring column Harvard has rung up a total of 37 points to its opponents 14. Of the games Harvard has lost, all three were decided by the margin of a single goal. The University Club six won in a 4 to 3 contest, Toronto downed the Crimson 3 to 2, and the Green sextet won out in Hanover by a 2 to 1 margin...
When the record of a certain hospital patient comes to the School, all the information about him, such as age, number of teeth, etc., numbering perhaps 500, facts, is put onto these cards by means of a code, a punch, for example, in row five column 37 meaning that the person in question is a convalescent...