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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another building is to be erected sometime in the future from a 60 inch reflecting telescope now being made in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. When this telescope is finally set up it will be the largest in operation below the equator...
...CRIMSON mailed ballots to the faculty and members of the law school, and although the vote was the largest in the history of CRIMSON polls for the complete University, it is hoped this year that there will be a larger vote cast in the graduate schools with tables in Langdell and Austin Halls in the Law School, and a table in the Baker Library in the Business School. This year no ballots are being sent out by mail and everyone wanting to vote will have to cast his vote in person at one of the polling tables...
...splendid procession of water floats on the mighty River Yangtze. Lantern-light processions and patriotic fetes were held in all the major cities of China, last week ? especially at Shanghai, where citizens were doubly jubilant because Chinese census takers had just announced that Shanghai is now the sixth largest metropolis in the world (2,726,046). Celebrants in many a Chinacity and Chinatown applauded floats from which bobbed haired "Girls of the Revolution" flaunted the red, blue and white Nationalist flag and cried shrilly "China for the Chinese...
...Just as Russia had supplied the cash and propaganda to assist Chiang in conquering South China, so a new ally appeared to lend crushing weight to Nationalism's conquest of the North. This new ally was (and is) the so-called "Christian" Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, master of the largest private army in the world (195,000 men). With Marshal Feng's potent aid, Marshal Chiang accomplished the capture of Peking last Spring (TIME, June 4); and since then, with all China at least nominally subservient to Nationalism, the emergence of Chiang Kai-shek...
...magnesia. More relevantly, he is vice president of Lentheric, ultra-modern Fifth Avenue perfume shop, where simplicity, angularity, silver sheen exemplify I'art moderne, where expensive, fragrant distillations jet publicly before the eyes of purchasers, many of whom are fascinating, many merely ambitious. Mrs. Palmer has presided over the largest body of sensibly perfumed young women in the land; she was, last year, national president of the Junior League...