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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bailey will not give up his office until September 1, 1928, when Dr. Means will officially take over the responsibilities and duties of the position. For Dr. Bailey, this date will mark the end of 33 years of service in the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEANS APPOINTED MEDICAL ADVISOR | 3/14/1928 | See Source »

Chancellor Churchill's most audaciously successful current "jugglery" has been to so revise the periods on which the landlord's property tax payments become due that an extra payment date was smuggled into the present fiscal year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Odd Millions | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Claude H. Foster of Cleveland, inventory promoter, manufacturer, called his new automobile horn in 1904 after the name of that golden trumpet by which the archangel will at some unknown date announce the dissolution of all things-Gabriel's horn. Gabriel Manufacturing Co. prospered, expanded, invented a snubber to tame the jouncings of springs on automobiles. Gabriel snubbers rivalled Gabriel's horn in fame. Since 1925 when Gabriel Manufacturing was listed on the New York Stock Exchange "Snubber" has been cried in stock brokers' customers' rooms, when the ticker recorded a transaction in Gabriel stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Shock Absorber | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...team, the record of which to date has been the most successful of any first year team ever produced by Coach H. L. Cowles, had but little trouble in disposing of its Blue rivals. Captain Ogden Phipps '31 maintained his brilliant record by easily defeating the Eli captain in straight games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN SQUASH TEAM WINS FROM YALE BY 4 TO 1 | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...alter all the plays of Shakespeare, to make the lines and the costumes up-to-date, it can't be done. We tried it with Hamlet for four nights when we played in Cleveland, but we found that nothing was gained and much lost. In every work, Shake speare has created a background and an environment which, if taken away, destroys the greatness of the play. For instance. 'Romeo and Juliet' requires the romance-breathing Italian atmosphere, while the more blatant, boisterous plays would not be out of place in any country but England. This we found...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Modernized Ophelia Would Lose Charm of Italian Romance Says Fritz Leiber--Shakespeare Always Modern in Thought | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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