Word: listings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reverberations from the last transoceanic flight have almost died away: three aviators have added their names to the list of men who have accomplished one of the hardest feats in flying. Heroes for a few days, they now drop into the background, and the public awaits expectantly the next display of courage and ability...
Following is the list of honorary degrees awarded at the Harvard Commencement Exercises this morning, together with the remarks by President Lowell...
Friday. The retiring Tory Cabinet drove to Windsor, handed over their seals of office to the King-Emperor. At the same time Prime Minister MacDonald published an official list of members of the new Labor Cabinet...
Twelve thousand replies were received; when the ballots were counted the name of white-chinned Premier Raymond Poincaré led all the rest with 10,110 votes. Second and third on the list were Mme. Marie Curie (radium) and Marshal Joffre. Others in the first ten were Aristide Briand, Georges Clémenceau, Marshal Pétain, Cinema Inventor Louis Lumière and Dr. Pierre Roux, discoverer of diphtheria serum...
...list (see p. 51) of U. S. colleges and universities, and individuals upon whom they this year bestow kudos. The name of one great university is missing. It is missing every year. Cornell University gives no honorary degrees...