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Word: metropolitanism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Taking an unusual theme, the oppression of the Indian by the whites, padding it with a hopelessly drawn out plot, partly redeeming it with some excellent acting, and coloring it with some highly artificial photography, the directors of "Redskin" have produced the rather mediocre picture now showing at the Metropolitan Theater...

Author: By D. M. K., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Freshman team is built around a nucleus of Ordway Southard '32 and C. D. Laine '32 who are members of the University team which, besides successfully defending its Intercollegiate Championship, now bids fair to capture the Massachusetts Metropolitan League title...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1932 Meet Exeter at Chess | 2/15/1929 | See Source »

...teletypesetter, developed by Publisher Gannett and already demonstrated successfully, is expected to be in use in many a metropolitan daily's plant within a year. This machine, by means of perforated tape, sets type by telegraph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Photo-Composting | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Ogden Mills, capitalist and philanthropist, died of pneumonia on January 29 at the age of 72. He was the director of many organizations and was a consistent benefactor of the Home for Incurables in New York City, the Mills Memorial Hospital, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Several years ago he contributed $20,000 to the Harvard War Memorial Church, Campaign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $200,000 GIVEN HARVARD BY WILL OF OGDEN MILLS | 2/7/1929 | See Source »

When each of some 665,000-members of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union, General Federation of Women's Clubs, National Council of Jewish Women and Metropolitan Life Insurance policyholders-ripped open the envelopes of her mail last week, there slipped into her hand from one envelope a pamphlet which bore on its face the horrendous word cancer. "What Every Woman Should Do About Cancer" was the pamphlet's title. It was part of the American Society for the Control of Cancer's latest effort to reach 8,000,000 U. S. women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: Cancer & Women | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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