Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Evening News, creation of the late great President-Maker Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") Hanna, was until recently wholly owned by his grandsons Daniel, Carl & Mark. Two months ago it was merged with the politely Democratic Plain...
...least of the late Polar Explorer Fridtjof Nansen's services to mankind was his creation, as League of Nations Commissioner for Refugees after the War. of identification passports known as Nansen Certificates for unfortunates unable to get passports from any country. Recently a Nansen Certificate was issued in the name of Mr. & Mrs. Lubinsky, resident since 1929 on the Island of Prinkipo. Turkey...
...London's Cheshire Cheese tavern. Time: the night of Dec. 16, 1775. There sits grumbling Dr. Johnson, eating dirtily with James Boswell, Joshua Reynolds and David Garrick. The talk is not of the Yankee rebellion but of women?how silly, superficial, lacking in humor and the ability for "true creation'' they are. Just to show up the testy lexicographer. Playwright Hinkley implies, Divine Providence was at that moment bringing Jane Austen into the world. She appears in person on the stage at the age of 23. No one in the audience would realize it, but according to her historians...
...Harvard Houses, is now generally known, and few stories in modern academic annuals are more dramatic. Mr. Lowell had thought out the House Plan down to architects' blue prints which were already in existence when a stranger walked into University Hall and offered the funds to make this intellectual creation a concrete reality of intellectual ferment...
...standards of scholarship which President Lowell has pressed into actuality were set for the men of the College in the creation of the General Examinations. Their introduction has resulted in that rising quality of study that has been marked during past years; it has been made possible in part by the linking of the college years in a continuous current of study. The tutorial system has also aided in creating a continuity for these years...