Word: displays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treasure Room in the Memorial Library has once more been reopened to those interested in rarities historical and literary. Among the many valuable documents on display, there may be found the Charter granted to Harvard College by the General Court of the Colony and signed by Governor Thomas Dudley on May 30, 1650. The only remaining volume from the library of John Harvard, together with three Bibles of Henry Dunster's, first President of the College, one of which contains the records of the Dunster family, completes this interesting collection of Harvardiana...
...errs. Investigations regularly show that more than 80% of TIME-readers are cover-to-cover readers. - ED. Sirs: As a weekly cover-to-cover reader of TIME, I am very glad indeed to see that you propose to limit the number of pages. You can give your advertisers more display in a limited number of pages than you can give them in double spreads in a magazine made up of innumerable pages. F. E. BARBOUR Beech-Nut Packing Co. Canajoharie, N.Y. Sirs: Being a cover-to-cover reader I am in favor of keeping the number of pages down. FRED...
Jerry for Short. William A. Grew, author of the smut-cracking comedy My Girl Friday, was mistakenly encouraged by its profits to display this naïve anecdote of innocence in Westchester County. In it romance is made difficult for a youth of the aristocracy and a peasant virgin; difficult also for Fiske O'Hara, who plays the lead and tries to ingratiate his audience by chatting and singing to them in an entr'acte...
...acquire and hold gold bullion was regarded in London as distinctly ominous. Was the explanation that France ?on the eve of The Hague Reparations Conference?was amassing a spectacular gold reserve, swelling her credit to proud, unwonted dimensions, and generally preparing to overawe the Conference with a display of her fiscal might...
Nobody said that in 1902 when President Theodore Roosevelt rode in a gas buggy, but the papers did say "Roosevelt's display of courage was typical of him." Nonetheless, Detroit was on its way. That year the Olds Motor Works startled the city by announcing a production of 4,000 cars, and that year the ex-superintendent of the Detroit Edison had his second company, the Henry Ford Automobile Co., fail...