Word: leos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pound class.--George Karelitz '24 defeated Leo Schwartz '26 by decision, extra period...
American Chemical Association. Meeting in New York, the American Chemical Society elected to its presidency Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Chemical Enterpreneur and Honorary Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. Dr. Baekeland, a Belgian by birth, is an American by adoption. He is best known for his invention of "bakelite," the synthetic substitute for hard rubber and amber, widely used in pipe-stems, billiard balls, fountain pens...
...important feature of the proceedings is the joint presence of Leo Ditrichstein and Lola Fisher. Mr. Ditrichstein has forsaken for the nonce his vast capacity for random love affairs and settled down to a display of his considerable talent as a human being of normal impulses. Regarding Miss Fisher, there is virtually nothing to say. Somebody once said he didn't like her. He wasn't even put under observation. He was buried the next day at noon...
...Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock with a session at Boston University Theological Seminary on "The Church and Labor". The evening session, a dinner conference at the Harvard Liberal Club, will deal with the "Brainworkers and the Labor Movement". Speakers will be Professor Vida D. Scudder, Wellesley College; Dr. Leo Wolman, Research Adviser, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Roger N. Baldwin, American Civil Liberties Union, Stuart Chase, Director, Labor Bureau, Inc. Chairman: probably a Harvard professor...
...called "classic" ages, with one of which, the reign of Louis XIV, the play itself is concerned. "Epochs of prey", M. Rolland describes them, "a pack of hounds with blind instincts, always straining to escape from the huntsman's leash." The era of Augustus, the era of Leo X, the era of Louis XIV,--all built on the uncertain grounds of repression, murder and cruelty; all followed by periods of terrible degeneration, of savage misuse of liberty...