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Word: dinners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the blase dinner guests who tell this story are being more apt than risqué, was indicated by a report last week from Secretary William M. Jardine's watchful Department of Agriculture. U. S. horses, said the report, and U. S. mules, are decreasing rapidly in numbers. Their population is 17% less than in 1920. The next five years will show a 30% or 40% reduction of their present scanty number. Breeding, warned the Department, must be stimulated to meet what is already an acute shortage on farms where machinery is impracticable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Acute Shortage | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will be held today. The events of the day will open with a business meeting to be held at 10. o'clock in Emerson Hall, and at 11.30 o'clock the literary exercises will be held in Sanders Theatre in Memorial Hall. A Dinner to be held at the Union at 1 o'clock will conclude the meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHI BETA KAPPA TO CONDUCT MEETING | 6/4/1927 | See Source »

...public is invited to the literary exercises, and all members of the fraternity will be welcome at these ceremonies and at the dinner following. Tickets for the dinner, priced at $2.50, are on sale at the University Bookstore. Members of the other chapters are asked to apply to Professor W. G. Howard, 91 Garden Street, the secretary of the Harvard Chapter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHI BETA KAPPA TO CONDUCT MEETING | 6/4/1927 | See Source »

...final practice game for the Harvard polo team this afternoon at the Dedham Country and Polo Club will be followed this evening by a dinner to be given for the players by B. N. Hamling at the club. Motion pictures of the country club races last year and a slow motion film of Devereun Melburn will be shown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poloists in Final Practice | 6/1/1927 | See Source »

...slow in getting to sleep and are helped most by the rest they get between 5 and 9 o'clock in the morning. . . . Something can often be done for insomnia by teaching the patient to keep his mind off disturbing thoughts, to avoid mental work or exciting conversations after dinner, to take a warm bath and a little food on retiring and to go to bed earlier. . . . The less the patient sleeps one night, the less he is able to sleep the next, and the only thing that will break the vicious circle is a sedative drug. . . . Morphine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

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