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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This is the greatest moment of my life," said he. "I have heard of the House of Lords all my life, and here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Most Enviable Order | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Rutgers an average of over 90% in all his studies won him a Phi Beta Kappa key in his junior year. He was considered Rutgers' best debater. He won his R in four sports (football, baseball, basketball, track). The late Walter Camp called him "the greatest defensive end that ever trod the gridiron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Robeson's Return | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Lincoln, capital of Nebraska, has two claims to esthetic distinction: 1) Its capitol building, last work of the late great Architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, is surely a piece of the world's greatest modern architecture. 2) Its symphony orchestra exists unaided by great-hearted guarantors and, miraculously, without deficit. Last week the Lincoln players gave the first concert of their fourth season. Again Rudolph Seidl, onetime oboist in the Minneapolis Symphony, conducted his 40 colleagues, all of whom receive union wages. Again there will be given four Sunday afternoon concerts sponsored by the junior division of the Lincoln Chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lincoln's 41 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...attraction of Wellesley girls for Harvard men, if one is to judge by the amount of mail which goes out daily from the Brattle Square postoffice station, is still the greatest in the colleges of the north...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Attraction of Wellesley Girls for Harvard Students Doubles That of Vassar--Average of 60 Letters Received Every Day | 11/15/1929 | See Source »

...enormous strides in the decade since the war, was consummated yesterday at Baden-Baden when final details as to the proposed World Bank were issued. If this institution, designed primarily to facilitate execution of the Young reparations plan, works out to its theoretical conclusion, it should stand among the greatest reforms of the twentieth century...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW SPIRIT | 11/15/1929 | See Source »

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