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Word: devotedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The second floor will be devoted to the general use of the University in an effort to relieve in some degree the pressure for class room space that is being felt in increasing measure in the University offices. The present class room space is entirely inadequate as has been previously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RENOVATIONS IN BOYLSTON TO BE COMPLETED BY FALL | 5/29/1929 | See Source »

William Edward Boeing, 47, founded Boeing and soon bought control of Pacific. He entered the transport business to make money out of mail, express and passenger carriage, but more especially to have sure buyers of the planes he was making at Seattle. He got into plane-making literally by accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: On the Map | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Hereby has Harvard, with a reputation for doing consistently right by its faculty, set a precedent that the rest of the universities on the Carnegie list must follow. Comparatively low salaries, painfully slow promotion, and constant demands for more and more esoteric research have already brought the teaching profession into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Filling the Gap | 5/23/1929 | See Source »

Tory speakers, depressed by this possibility, last week devoted as much time to the agile Welshman as to their Socialist opponents. Bland, moonfaced Winston Churchill, Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose modest suggestion of a fourpenny (8?) reduction in the tax on tea has been received by the electorate as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cheap-Jack | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

It is equally obvious that the independent position afforded the Athletic Association by a large surplus, is fully sufficient to insure the fulfillment of its particular needs. For it is estimated that aside from the $225,000 to be invested in permanent improvements during the next year, and aside from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CORPORATION VOTES | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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