Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Farm. One-half of the total number of U. S. farmers make less than $800 a year. The profits of only one-quarter exceed $1,200 per year, the Department of Agriculture's "minimum wage" for a farm family. Reason for low income: For every dollar the consumer pays...
When Manhattan top-hatted and bustled into the 90's the late Clara B. Spence founded a school for girls. Extremely correct, it was on 48th street, just off Fifth Avenue-a school for gentlewomen. Even Manhattan's late Social Arbiter Ward McAllister approved. Last week in Manhattan...
What the Journal had done was to sign a contract with the Paris Pattern Co., Inc., by which the magazine has "exclusive right to describe and publish the latest models" supplied each month by 17 tip-top Parisian couturiers, including. Chanel, Lanvin, Poiret, Jane Régny, Lucile, Pre-met...
Modeste Petrovich Moussorgsky's happiest moment came on March 16, 1881, when, in a St. Petersburg hospital, surrounded by strangers, Fate permitted him to die. For 46 years he had been beaten by life. His first love, and his last and real love had died. He had lost his...
Five chairs at Harvard, two in the Department of Chemistry, two in the field of History, and one in the Theological School have just been filled, it was announced yesterday at University Hall. The new incumbents of these chairs have all been professors at Harvard for a number of years...