Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rustic Ravinia Park just north of Chicago, opened for business last week. The Ravinia season lasts ten and one-half weeks, until Labor Day. Conductors this year will be Louis Hasselmans, Gennaro Papi, Eric DeLamarter. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra will be in the pit for every performance. Onetime Actor Edwin Strawbridge will head the ballet...
...Paris were far more significant than arrivals of visiting royalty, trans-Atlantic flyers, Channel swimmers. Behind the proposal the City Government, long habituated to receiving great personages amid blazing publicity, squarely placed itself. A welcoming commission, including Alfred Emanuel Smith, John Jacob Raskob, Bernard Mannes Baruch, Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell, Railroader Patrick Crowley et al. was duly named. Students of public psychology waited to see what pitch of enthusiasm could be aroused in the populace by a public reception to a man whose triumph was mental, not physical...
...nominees for the Commission, which has yet to be called into official existence by the city government: Alfred S. Austrian Augustus Stephen Peabody Francis X. Busch James D. Cunningham Charles Piez William Ruggles Dawes George McClelland Reynolds George 0. Fairweather John Fitzpatrick Carl Richter Harold Edwin Foreman J ulius Rosenwald Earl George Gubbins Herbert D. Simpson J. L. Jacobs James Simpson D. F. Kelly Albert Arnold Sprague Clayton Mark Silas Hardy Strawn Charles Edward Merriam A. W. Swayne Melvin Alvah Traylor Joseph Roberts Noel Frank F. Winans Victor A. Olander George Woodruff
...Advancement of Science, admit that it is a mere guess. Two States have since passed laws like Tennessee's. Other states ban evolutionary textbooks from the public schools. Therefore, the executive committee of the A.A.A.S. at its spring meeting adopted a resolution, prepared by famed Drs. Edwin Grant Conklin, Samuel Jackson Holmes, Henry Fairfield Osborn, John Campbell Merriam and Robert Andrews Millikun, published in Science, setting forth, "the present status of Evolution" in four points...
...Edwin Greene (on the telephone): Edwin's dead. Voice: I'm dreadfully sorry! Mrs. Edwin: Oh, are you?-It's an easy thing to be. You've got your husband at home safely tied to your apron strings. You can afford to be. When more normal, Mrs. Edwin weeps three times daily...