Word: fourths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are only four widows of Presidents now living. Last week one of them appeared in a Manhattan police court. Of the four, one is Mrs. Wilson, another is Mrs. Roosevelt, another Mrs. Preston (formerly Mrs. Cleveland) and the fourth is Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison...
...informed last week that the Municipal Council of Paris has at length sanctioned an increase of 25% in Parisian daytime taxi fares and has stepped up the night rates by 150%. The travelers reflected: 1) That the day rates are so ridiculously low that to increase them by one-fourth will not seriously inconvenience foreigners. 2) That the night rates have long ago become a mockery, the drivers simply holding out for what they can get. Early in the evening they often inform prospective fares that they are on the way to their own dinners-and wait to be bribed...
President Lowell will give a lecture on "Public Opinion and Religion" tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in Peabody Hall at Phillips Brooks House. This is the fourth lecture in the series on religion...
...Jackson '27 advanced to the fourth round of the Massachusetts state squash tournament yesterday by downing C. F. Eaton '22, of the Harvard Club in straight sets...
...fourth of the series of lectures on the great authors in history given by members of the faculty in the University will be delivered this afternoon by Professor C. H. C. Wright, Professor of French Language and Literature, at 4.30 o'clock in Emerson D. Professor Wright will lecture on Mollere, the great French dramatist...