Word: eightieth
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Celebrating the occasion of his eightieth birthday, President Lowell will be given a dinner by the Overseers and the Corporation of the University at the Harvard Club of Boston Sunday night. On Monday he will again be feted when he attends the annual dinner at Lowell House...
...mines in the vicinity, yesterday arrived in New York City and began colonizing the vast wastes of the Empire State Building," related the Bawl Street Journal. "By nine o'clock last night all the pioneers had staked out claims on the plateau-like stretches between the fortieth and eightieth parallel. Little watch fires gleamed in hundreds of windows while hungry bond and insurance salesmen prowled below on Fifth Avenue, snarling and pointing menacingly at the clifflike structure...
...carry on investigation in any laboratory in the university; and second, the establishment of new Harvard national scholarships. But for the latter he has not had to await the coming of the new century. The historian and philosopher Henry Osborn Taylor, of the class of '78, approaching his eightieth year, has led the way by the endowment of the first...
...Once-a-Year Poker & Pretzel Club, for which Mr. Sulzberger & friends were obliged to journey to Washington this year because Secretary Morgenthau was too busy to come to Manhattan. The other is the New Year's Eve party in the Sulzbergers' rich mansion in East Eightieth Street near Central Park. From 2 a. m. on, guests drift in from earlier parties, gravitate to the huge, glistening kitchen to grill frankfurters, scramble eggs, bib champagne...
...well-known public relations counsel whom the committee interviewed were Edward Bernays, promoter of the celebration of Thomas Edison's eightieth birthday, and Ivy Lee, counsel for John D. Rockefeller, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Charles A. Lindbergh. The committee also is interested in the counter-publicity organizations which newspapers have formed to protect their advertising space against the competition of artificial news items. Such a society is the American Newspaper Publishing Association that sends its members regular bulletins on the latest publicity stunts and stories and their sources. This association also helps protect the public against accepting as news material...