Word: item
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same time the expenditures for various running expenses of the College buildings, including dormitories, were given out. The caretaking item for the College dormitories, including maid and janitor service and incidentals, amounted to $106,500. Steam heat furnished each College room totaled $71,891. Water, furnished in any desired quantity with each room, drew $7,075 from the Harvard exchequer, and electricity for all lights in the College dormitories exclusive of those in private rooms, cost $8,606. Other expenditures of interest were: for operation of the Dunster Hall steam elevator, $885.; for laundry work for the College dormitories--linen...
Northern readers of a new publication, Forward Atlanta, were shocked to read the following business item...
Reading the item in TIME, July 23 under caption, Smith vs. White, Mr. White rejoins: "The undertakers are looking wistfully right now at three members of the United States Supreme Court, and with Al Smith as President we should have in that Court three distinguished learned respectable lawyers (who would) declare the 18th Amendment unconstitutional...
...readers of the New York World know well, the cartoons by Will B. Johnstone are always absurd, usually funny. His method is to take a news item, carry it pictorially to a ludicrous conclusion. A fortnight ago, he came upon "Chicago offers prize for poster boosting its World's Fair in 1933," as his news item. His cartoon in the form of a poster, showed a dog-faced gunman leaning on a World's Fair building which was labeled "100% American-Thompson Hall."* The smoke of the gunman's gun spelled: CHICAGO WELCOMES YOU! Other gangsters, disguised...
Flying was the business of Mazel M. ("Merry") Merrill, director of the Curtiss Flying Service, and Edwin M. Ronne, manager of the Buffalo Airport. On their engagement pad, last week, was the item: "Take Lindbergh's orange-colored Falcon from Buffalo to Curtiss Field, Long Island." It was, ostensibly, a simple and pleasant item in their business. But they were killed while performing it. A fog, a thickly-wooded hillside near Milford, Pa., a crash into the treetops, a completely demolished Falcon and two burned bodies told the story, crudely...