Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the approaching completion of two new floors of steel stacks in the Widener Library additional space will be provided for more than a quarter of a million volumes, according to Superintendent Frank Carney. The original plans made allowances for two floors, upon a level lower than the present A and B floors; but no movement was made toward the completion of these floors until further contributions could be received. Merely the steel superstructure supporting the above eight floors was in place...
Hollis-"The Nineteenth Hole". An amusing skit on golf by a man who is a skilled hand at writing good comedies. II s'appelle Frank Craven...
Last week, aboard the Leviathan, two people, meticulous and honest, made out their customs list. They were Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg and Mrs. Kellogg. They were returning to New York after the signing of the Kellogg pact in Paris (TIME, Sept. 3) and after a four-day visit to Ireland...
Lilacs. Lilacs bloom for Christmas when Dr. Frank Earl Denny, research director of the Boyce Thompson Institute at Yonkers wishes it. Likewise two crops of potatoes grow for him where only one obliges the efforts of another. Nature has given plants a dormancy period which is the plague of horticulturists. Dr. Denny found that exposure to the vapors of ethylene chlorhydrin and ethylene dichloride waked plants up immediately...
...Each New Year's Eve, John Pierpont Morgan summons his partners to No. 23 .Wall St., distributes gigantic checks as rewards for the year's work; 2) President Coolidge is kept busy answering appeals that he accept the chairmanship of the U. S. Steel Corp.; 3) Mrs. Frank O. Lowden, the onetime Miss Florence Pullman and daughter of Founder George M. Pullman, names all Pullman cars. For this labor, which reputedly occupies one half-hour each day, she earns either $100 a day or $30,000 a year...