Word: josiah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will provides that one undivided half of the buildings and real estate at 134-141 Summer street and 38 Broad street, and $30,000 in Liberty Bonds be given to the University to found three trusts. One of these will be called the Josiah P. Cooke Relief Fund and the income will be given to men who are assistant professors, or instructors at the University or men who have held these positions. The second of these funds is to be known as the Josiah Parsons Cooke Mineralogical Fund in memory of her brother J. P. Cooke, former professor of chemistry...
Long have composers wagged reproving fingers at the cinema, regarding it as a disorderly small boy whose grubby touch has too often smutted the dress of their lady, Music. Last week, one Josiah Zuro, Presentation Director in a Manhattan cinema theatre, pointed to a way by which composers, by casting an eye to the education of that same grimy juvenile, might better themselves, serve their, mistress to boot. "The cinema," said he, "needs opera-thumbnail opera. It needs opera to take the place of 'presentations'." Who does not know these presentations? In that uneasy ten minutes which intervenes...
Four living ex-presidents of the college were in the receiving line: Josiah Quincy Senior 1790, Edward Everett 1811, Jared Sparks 1815, and James Walker 1814. Mr. Quincy, one of the oldest of the company present told the Prince that he had been introduced sixty-six years before in 1794 to the grand-father of Prince Edward and the great-great-grandfather of the present heir apparent. Before leaving the library the Prince and his party affixed their signatures to the visitor's book, and the bold signature "Albert Edward" is still well preserved in the "Register of Visitors...
...members of the party were taken to Harvard Hall, where "an excellent lunch had been spread". The meal was very informal. The Prince sat in a central position at a table placed crosswise at the west end of the hall with President Felton at his left and Mr. Josiah Quiney, an ex-president of the College, at his right...
...Manhattan, has estimated that the total national wealth of Germany today is about $55,000,000,000. Dr. Karl Helfferich, famed German financier who was recently killed in a railway accident (TIME, Apr. 28), placed the national wealth of pre-War Germany at $73,780,000,000. Sir Josiah Stamp, British statistician, de- clared in 1919 that Dr. Helfferich had overlooked several items and he computed the pre-War Teutonic wealth at $80,500,000,000. Shortly before his death, however, Dr. Helfferich. made an estimate of Germany's post-War wealth. He thought that his Fatherland was worth...