Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, on the eve of the debut of his Sunday Times, Publisher Thomason began to learn how the Tribune and "Herex" (both priced at 10?) propose to protect themselves against the 5? tabloid. Licensed newsstands in Chicago all are built with two display shelves. Copies of the Tribune are stacked in two piles on the upper shelf; the Herex on the lower. No newsstand owner would dare disturb that arrangement without permission of either paper. All too familiar with the bloody history of Chicago's oldtime circulation wars, Publisher Thomason induced the Commissioner of Public Works to call...
...left President Abbott Lawrence Lowell little to boast about in that department. During subsequent periods Harvard has stood for Literature, Freshman Dormitories, Astronomy, House Plan, according to the energy of the faculty or the benevolence of donors. Currently Harvard is beginning to stand for Physics. President Lowell, on the eve of his retirement, apparently has determined that his successor shall not have the props pulled from under that branch of knowledge. If good equipment will keep good physicists at Harvard, they now have...
...David's Eve the students requested that Carnarvon Castle fly not the British Union Jack but the Welsh Red Dragon on St. David's Day.* But at daybreak, the Union Jack was smartly hoisted...
...least one Britisher who was prepared last week to believe every word of Mr. Owen's book, was T. Philip Perkins, one-time (1928) British amateur golf champion. On the eve of his final match in the Dixie Amateur, he attended Miami's Embassy Club, a gambling casino. While some local policemen were enjoying a light supper in the kitchen, bandits entered the casino for a holdup. Golfer Perkins was shot in the left thigh. The bandit leader was killed, several other persons wounded...
...Eve of St. Mark," Professor Lowes, Emerson...