Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edwin Denby, widowed last week President Coolidge telegraphed: "I am deeply grieved. . . . His life was an outstanding example of good citizenship . . . displaying qualities pf heart and mind which endeared...
...street accident when he went out to get a taxi to take them to the station, she is back as hostess in her husband's house-could not possibly be told so well without the sound device. For once, the voices, in spite of still imperfect reproduction, give life to the characterizations-H. B. Warner's Englishman, Ruth Chatterton's faithless wife. Best shot: Miss Chatterton on the sofa making up her mind...
Puppy. In A Dog's Life a puppy, blonde, capricious, played with Charles Chaplin. The puppy grew, turned into a dog of unusual appearance, of yellowish brown color, guarded the garbage cans on the Chaplin production lot, became obese and last week died...
...Charles Robert Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. The entire first edition (1,250 copies) was sold by the next afternoon...
...seven and a half million dollars for establishing an Institute of Human Relations at Yale, whose spirit will dominate that university in the future is an innovation, to say the least. The general object of the plan is to combine theoretical and practical sciences in analyzing and benefitting human life and relations. A comprehensive study of man in his relations to his fellow man is believed to be the key to understanding the individual. Knowledge of such theoretical sciences as biology, psychology, and sociology will be used in conjunction with what is known of such applied sciences as law, medicine...