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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubted whether Harvard ever received a gift which combined the qualities of abiding elemental human interest, with the highest range of international historical importance, more inextricably interwoven than in the collection of Lord Nelson letters and documents formed by Joseph Husband, '08. Trafalgar saved the British Empire, to all appearances, and Emma, Lady Hamilton, saved Nelson from seeming more than human Mr. Husband's collection brought to Harvard last October fifty letters and documents signed by Nelson, and half as many by Lady Hamilton, together with over a hundred other documents connected with the career of the greatest of English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winship Reviews Recent Acquisitions Exhibited in Widener Treasure Room; Good Fortune Features Current Year | 6/18/1929 | See Source »

...know a couple of old Salvation Army Captains, Englishmen, who, during the Indian famine of twenty-five years ago, fed three times the number of starving human beings that Hoover fed during the World War. And these unknown famine relief agents did not have the richest nation on earth sending food to them by the shipload and shoveling out money by the barrel to maintain an enormous organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...ageless theme. Yet the story was announced (two months after the wedding) in Zit's Weekly, theatrical trade-paper. Later the tabloids carried it. But solid, standard papers-Times, World, Herald Tribune, Sim, Post-ignored the week's-and one of the year's-greatest human interest story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Romance To Roseland | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...A.A.A.S. affirms Evolution as "one of the most potent influences for good . . . [in] human experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Evolution, Present Status | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...optician, sought to remedy faulty vision with selections from Kresge counters. Last week, however, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that an S. S. Kresge store in Boston, in selling eyeglasses, was "invading a field rightly sequestered ... to those possessing special training in a specified department of treatment of human ills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kresge Glasses | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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