Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following article is the fifth of a series written for the Crimson by W. W. Daly '14, University Secretary for Student Employment, on the various fields of endeavor in business open to college graduates...
Berkeley declared that, despite German denials, bombs containing the bacilli of bubonic plague were unquestionably dropped upon troops of the British Fifth Army in 1916. Asked what was done about the bacilli, Sir Berkeley said reminiscently, "We encouraged cats and owls." (Cats and owls catch rats, which carry fleas, which carry bubonic bacilli...
This year, the twenty-fifth of its existence, the Flonzaley Quartet is making a transcontinental tour of farewell concerts. Last week, they played what was to be, save for a supplementary benefit to be given March 17, their farewell concert in Manhattan. Two of the players will join a new Stradivarius Quartet, (socalled because they all own Stradivarius instruments) in which Wolfe Wolfinsohn is to be violinist, Gerald Felix Warburg, son of Banker Felix M. Warburg, the 'cellist. The remaining two announced no plans. But their work as a unit is done and, last week, their story was reviewed...
Easterners know that Los Angeles has outstripped San Francisco in population, in recent fame. They may not know that in 1928 San Francisco bank clearings totaled more than $11,000,000, largest west of Chicago, fifth largest in U. S. Of the 100 largest U. S. banks (1928) there were 30 in New York, 11 in Chicago, 8 in San Francisco. Home of Bank of Italy, central bank of the Giannini system. San Francisco shrugs its shoulders at cinema and citrus, argues that from the standpoint of stable commerce, of sound finance, of industrial prosperity, that the glitter...
Playing Saturday at Cambridge, Harvard University Team C overwhelmed the M. I. T. racquetmen by the score of 5 to 0. The Harvard team now stands fifth in the class C squash league...