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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unveiling of Mr. Sargent's paintings in the Widener Library was an event of great importance in the artistic history of the University. The two paintings fill the sunken panels at the right and left of the main doorway into the room of memorial photographs and the Widener collection. They are intended as a memorial to the students of Harvard University who lost their lives in the Great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SARGENT MURALS WELL RECEIVED AT FIRST APPEARANCE | 6/8/1929 | See Source »

...main thesis of Dr. Klein's philosophy of trade is that of mutual interest. He shows how the prosperity of any one nation depends on the prosperity of its customers and its competitors, and endeavors to prove that the growth of American trade has not been at the expense of that of other nations. In what is by all odds the most important chapter in the book he claims that it will not be the source of rivalries which might disrupt the peace of the world, because the increase in American exports has been almost entirely in specialties such...

Author: By R. L. W. jr., | Title: American Commerce | 6/4/1929 | See Source »

...main stream of poetry in any period always has countless little counter-currents and side eddies that are interesting if only to point the contrast with the dominant tendency. "Thalia" is very much one of these off-shoots, and this in spite of the publishers' claim that it is "fresh and modern in its point of view...

Author: By R. L. W. jr., | Title: Poetry and Criticism | 6/4/1929 | See Source »

...proposed main line runs: Los Angeles-Phoenix-El Paso-Midland (Tex.) -Fort Worth-Dallas-Atlanta. At Atlanta it contacts with a New Orleans-Mont-gomery-Atlanta line and with an Atlanta-Charlotte-Washington-Philadelphia-New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Refueling | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...branch from the main line will run: Dallas-Little Rock-Memphis (junction)-Louisville-Cincinnati-Columbus (competitive Transcontinental Air Transport take-off)-Pittsburgh. Then Pittsburgh-Washington and Pittsburgh-New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Refueling | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

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