Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After his graduation from the Law School in 1894 Mr. Perkins entered the law firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden, and Perkins, of which is still a member. He has a son, J. H. Perkins, in the Class...
...salute at the same time the cross of salvation and the banner of our nation. And while we send over the wide ocean our signals of love, devotion and loyalty to him who sits upon the throne of the Fisherman, we send also our respect ful salutations and our firm pledge of civic loyalty to the President of these United States...
...quarters next autumn. The actual construction will be finished before this, but not soon enough for use during the present college year. The building will be entirely fireproof, steel concrete and plaster being the only new materials. The foundations were found to be entirely good, while the walls, though firm in most places, will have to have new bricks here and there Massachusetts Hall will hold about 40 men. There will be 10 bedrooms and six studies on each flooor...
...Gabriele d'Annunzio, now Prince of Snowy Mountain, wrote to the newspaper Provincia di Brescia affecting proud disdain of the world, the flesh and the devil outside of his villa: "I beg you to declare that I have become the solitary, proud artist of 1911. It is my firm decision not to care or to know what happens outside my villa. Every evening, I burn before an altar of stone the heap of the day's unopened and unanswered letters. To write to me is useless, to come to my door equally useless. I answer nobody; I receive...
...English and Continental authors. The Standard Dictionary first appeared in 1885, edited by Dr. Funk. Dr. Funk was a prohibitionist and his Voice (1880), an organ of the Prohibition Party, reached a circulation of 700,000 in the campaign [Cleveland vs. Harrison vs. Fisk (Pro.)] of 1888. The firm became Funk & Wagnalls Co. in 1891, having established the Literary Digest in 1889. Beside the bulky, bound volumes of that weekly, which constitute an exhaustive compendium of the press opinions of the world on all public questions in the last three decades, the partners have been responsible for The Jewish Encyclopedia...