Word: devotedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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. . .While a fortune estimated at $50,000,000 was being devoted to the "betterment of mankind" the usual Christmas bonuses to workers on "the greatest paper on earth" failed to materialize; the owner being unable to "afford it this year."
It is well over a dozen years since the Japan Society of New York got together a number of important Japanese works of art in a special exhibition. Since that time there has been no chance in America to see such things except in the comparatively monotonous form in which...
...Across the bridge we were in Cambridge, a city of 120,000 people, without a daily paper. It is dominated by Harvard University, the oldest in America. We motored by many noble piles most of them in the Colonial style, all devoted to learning, and nestling behind ancient trees are...
The morning of Saturday, May 19, will be devoted to sports and an excursion to some place in the country. In the afternoon there will be baseball game and a crew race between Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. The meeting will close with a supper in the evening.
Another section is devoted to Talleyrand's niece-by marriage-the beautiful Dorothee de Courland, Duchesse de Dino, and his grand-niece Pauline; and his respective relations with these relations are discuss with guto.