Word: findings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposed college dining hall, has been in its present condition for a considerable period. Few passers-by can have any suspicion of its intimate connection with the beautiful and opulent university near-by; its appearance is that of a repository for refuse which has been unable to find its way to the more recognized public dumps...
There were half a dozen houses and dinner tables in Cambridge to which he went with pleasure, houses where he seemed to find a solace in the neighborhood of his kind. But human beings were an exceptional luxury. He had never learned to expect them. They never became necessities of his daily life, and I doubt if he missed them when they were absent...
...announced almost simultaneously with that of the Empress. Potent mother of three sons and a daughter, Donna Mussolini last week donned an apron and sturdily dished out a hot luncheon to 70 workmen on her husband's "model farm" at Forli in the north of Italy. Males who find themselves in the south of Italy this summer should avoid being jeered at or reviled for failure to observe an old Sicilian custom...
...contemplated merging with Associated Electrical Industries, Ltd., largest British makers of electrical equipment. Inasmuch as Associated Electrical Industries is about one-third owned by International Electric Co., and as this latter corporation is a subsidiary of U. S. General Electric, it seemed at least possible that Sir Hugo might find himself indeed entangled in the tentacles of the U. S. Money Octopus. Rumored negotiations between British G. E. and Associated Electrical Industries were last month denied, but Sir Hugo's unsuccessful attempt to keep British G. E. stock from U. S. holders was said to have resulted in a resumption...
...Power Trust-and undoubtedly hoped to capture circulation from the 13 Graustein papers by painting them black. Said the Hearst press: "The Federal Trade Commission has uncovered the power trust's nationwide practices of buying reporters, editors and news agencies. "We believe that Congress, if it will, can find a way to stop these great interstate monopolies from using their huge financial resources, contributed by the people, to destroy the free press by means that range from secret bribery of newspaper employes to outright purchase of newspapers themselves." Said the New York Times: "The whole foundation of honest journalism...