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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been a magic at work, a creative imagination embodying in material forms a spiritual force. The first donors, backing an un- formulated project, the many early helpers among business men, led by Major Higginson, who in those initial years gave unflaggingly of time and counsel, would, we may imagine, look with amazement upon this splendid scene. But they would also look with pride, and their pride would be justified, for they, too, share in this great achievement. A great seat of learning gave her best endeavors to meet the need for the trained men they craved for business; it gave...
...policy of "athletics for all" inaugurated by Mr. Bingham is to be taken from its largest point of view, the graduate students should be able to look forward in this and future years to a much more competent and comprehensive direction of sport, that the new assets with which they are favored may be enjoyed to the utmost, build the future Harvard, and with the addition of the George F. Baker Foundation the dream of fifteen years seemed near consummation...
...being as free to put in their proposals and we being as free to negotiate with them as though no conversations had taken place between America and ourselves. The only value of these conversations when the Five-Power Conference is called is that we ourselves will not have to look to each other...
...covered with large nauseating warts. She is on the dole now-a charge upon the Government- but when the Bureau has dealt with the warts she should soon win back her profitable trade. Recalling that Berlin has a standing idle army of some 200,000 unemployed, Dr. Gumpert cried: "Look at them! How many are ugly-needlessly! Thousands will have work when we have helped them...
...awakened one morning at 5 a. m. by a trans-Atlantic telephone call. Speaking from Paris was William F. Kenny, self-made millionaire (contracting utilities), longtime friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Explained Mr. Kenny: "I haven't been able to get a decent haircut and I want to look presentable when I get back home." Customer Kenny (almost bald) instructed Barber Arico to sail on the Leviathan, attend him in London with shears, clippers.* Estimators estimated that Mr. Kenny's haircut would cost him some $2,000 ? more than $1 per hair for what he has left...