Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office and board-rooms of University Hall, can be read between the lines of this sane article. Surely there will come a time when men will leave Harvard knowing more than their grades on 1b miscellaneous examinations, and when the "Regulations Pertaining to College Studies" will be an extinct item prized by book-collectors...
...Pollux last night chuckling softly over a newspaper item which reported Bishop Manning's refusal to allow the Lutherans to use the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York for a great Protestant celebration commemorating Martin Luther. Pollux was amused to recollect the good Bishop's fund-raising slogan when building the Cathedral: "A House of prayer for all people." The invisible amendment which Pollux missed seems to have read: "Except for non-Episcopalians and all those bearing the name Judge Ben Lindsey...
...sharp eye of President Roosevelt last week focused upon women's high button shoes. Along with rubbers, corsets, kimonos, camisoles, stockings, dresses, cotton drawers, aprons, bloomers, lingerie, hairpins, princess slips and plug tobacco, he found button shoes listed as an item used by the Department of Labor in calculating its periodic Cost-of-Living index. The President needed no style expert to inform him that such footwear was now an anachronism even in the back-country districts. Suspecting that Madam Secretary Perkins' statisticians were behind the times on other articles in daily use, he ordered a complete revision...
...York City "Evangeline" Department (Cont'd) Sirs: In re the matter of Mr. Douglas G. McPhee's Sept. 4 comment, may I say: In the heart of New York City, by the shining big sea water, . . . Not the poem "Hiawatha" gave the rhythm of that item Yes, I know Longfellow used it, but not so in "Hiawatha" Couched in "Hiawatha's" meter, this is how you'd read that statement Bottles bought they by the trainload, but the kegs they did not order HAROLD POPPE Forest Hills...
...Largest item of the program is a $1,000,000 seaplane airbase on Miami's shore. Last week Fred Howland, Inc. of Miami was awarded the master contract for the terminal building. The base will provide for the simultaneous arrival of four of Pan American's huge "Clipper" flying boats, the handling of 500 to 600 passengers. It will provide customs and immigration offices, be rated a U. S. port of entry. Clearance is allowed on the marine runways and loading docks for wing spans of more than 200 ft.; a mile-long deep water channel has been...