Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conrad is dead. But romanticism, the best kind of romanticism, is not dead. Like Aristotle and those who hug the hems of his ethical garments it lingers on. And so an American, who might just as well have been a Norwegian or a Frenchman or a Jap, risks his life...
For at Harvard this is not the first vote of its kind and thus it is possible to compare it with the one of two years ago. And such comparison shows very distinctly that there has grown at Harvard a dislike for the status quo and a desire for moderation...
*It was necessary that two national conventions approve. In 1920 at Cleveland it was first proposed. Mrs. Finley Shepard (Helen Gould) resigned as president as a result of the discord. In 1922 at Hot Springs. Ark., it was rejected. In 1924 at Manhattan delegates approved this pledge: "I desire to...
At Giza, Egypt, Dr. George A. Reisner's Harvard-Boston expedition (TIME, March 23, 1925) effected entrance to a burial chamber near the Pyramid of Cheops; deduced from the disposition of furniture and the human remains that it was the reburial place of Cheops' father or mother. Out of a...
Seven years ago General Motors made an exceptionally profitable investment by buying 1,441,920 (60%) of Fisher Body Corp.'s shares for $32,151,825. This has already earned $23,130,800 in dividends and $25,217,000 in Fisher Body equity. Not only such profits but also the...