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Word: fairs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: A Life Actuary could readily compute a fair price based on Mortality and Experience Tables, as the average life time - expectancy - should serve as a sound basis for a Life Subscription Rate. The Tables are averages which produce a reasonable margin of profit to a Life Insurance Company; used by TIME, they should result similarly. On the other hand, if one's age determines the rate, you would be at the mercy of the sub scriber, as his honesty might make you, his dishonesty break you. L. G. WELCHER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...their thirty-ninth reunion. They were a lean, wiry lot, with 84-year-old drummer boys as youngsters of the gathering. The U. S. Marine Band played "Dixie." So great was the excitement that two oldsters were hospitalized. One died. Old codgers sat about swapping stories of Fair Oaks, Chickamauga, Spottsylvania Court House. Time, for a few days, was turned back for these lingering old men to a better, brighter land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Men of Grey | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...Wheeler, 88, wife of the late Charles W. Wheeler (grain), gave $2,000,000 to Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital. The gift comprised almost every dollar she had. It was her bequest. She died last week, having lived in Chicago's Congress Hotel since the 1893 World's Fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baker's Stewart | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...Last week, President Dawes's brother, Charles Gates Dawes, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, received credit for a whirlwind (two-day) campaign in which ten million dollars were raised for the Fair by appeals to potent Chicagoans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fair Plans | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...Adams Perivolas Sever 30 Rider Wilcox Sever 35 Greek B II Sever 29 History 55 Abell-Dunn Sever 6 Fordyce-Woodworth Sever 11 Italian 10 Sever 36 Mathematics 2, sect. 3 Harvard 3 Mathematics 13 Sever 5 Mineralogy 12 Geol. Mus. 22 Palaeontology 1 Acker-Elkins Emerson A Fair-Wylie Emerson J Philosophy 3a Emerson D Philosophy 9 Emerson D Spanish 8 Sever 36 TOMORROW Chemistry 9 Emerson F Class, Philology 55 Emerson F English 4 Harvard 2 Fine Arts 14d Fogg Small Lect. Rm. German A Mr. Bennett, 8 Emerson A Dr. Cross, 15, 20, 21 New Lect. Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Examinations for Today and Tomorrow | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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