Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other side were the Canadian newsprint manufacturers, who desired to raise the price to $60. Louis Alexandre Taschereau, the crisp Premier of Quebec, had declared on his own behalf and for Premier George Howard Ferguson of Ontario:*". . . The price of $55 is not a fair return." This indication of provincial government opinion had stirred U. S. statisticians to compute that a price raise of $5 would cost U. S. publishers $19,000,000 yearly (TIME...
...husband) was born when she was nearly 43, and her hair had turned gray. When their progeny grew up and left home. Grandma and Dan'l began to go places and do things: "in '93, like everybody else," they went to the World's Fair in Chicago. But Dan'l was getting along. He had a stroke, then another; soon he was almost helpless. Grandma Brown used to wash his feet for him. "But he would say to me, 'I hate to have you wash my feet.' And I would answer, 'Why, that...
Author Wiegler presents a portfolio of 21 thumbnail biographies: impressionistic studies of men and women of genius. Some are boudoir, some bedside scenes. Heloise and Abelard, separated for life, long for each other and finally share a grave; Byron, fair, fattish and 40, dies of fever at Missolonghi; Goethe walks through the night to one of his many assignations; Oscar Wilde, under his enforced pseudonym of Sebastian Melmoth, dies a pariah at the Hotel d'Alsace in Paris; George Sand and Alfred de Musset kiss and wrangle; Tolstoy, in his last illness, flees his troublesome wife and dies...
...Lindberg Selections from "Pinafore" Sullivan Mandolin Club 8. Mr. John S. B. Archer '30 9. Glorious Forever Rachmaninoff Old Man Noah arr. by Bartholomew The Longshoreman Chesham Vocal Club 10. Dance of the Paper Dolls Tucker, Schuster, and Siras Medley of College Songs arr. by Rice Banjo Club 11. Fair Harvard Gilman Combined Clubs
...advertising department of the Bermuda Travel Burean, the Vagabond has no scruples against voicing a hope that not a few of those who have faithfully followed him from lecture to lecture this fall will join the old stowaway in welcoming the dawn of a new year in that fair isle of liberty which lies somewhere to the southeast. For with all the wisdom and foresight of three wise men the Vagabond is closing up his quarters in the Lowell House construction shack and leaving Cambridge for the festive season. All of which may go to prove that there...