Word: million
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June, 1928, Harvard received from the family of William Augustus White, '63, a collection of the early editions of Shakespeare's plays, which were appraised at $435,000. In other words, the money value of the College Library has increased in the past twelve months more than a million dollars...
Frock-coated Ezra Cornell sat calmly while his small-bore colleagues called him "selfish" and much worse in New York's Senate for wanting to give a half-million dollars to build a college on land which the Federal Government would give away. Beside him sat his wife, and young Senator White. The latter was interested in education because he had some. He had attended Hobart College (Geneva, N. Y), been graduated from Yale, studied in Paris and Berlin. He had taught history at Michigan University. He had read and thought about the old English universities. His father had made...
Senator Cornell turned one day to Senator White and said: "I am not sure but that it would be a good thing for me to give the half a million to old Harvard College in Massachusetts to educate the descendants of the men who hanged my [Quaker] forefathers...
Hugh L. Cooper & Co., Manhattan consulting engineers (they built famed Muscle Shoals plants), a 100 million dollar hydro-electric power plant in the Ukraine. When completed, this power plant will be the world's largest...
...London, last week, the Film Actors Guild denounced U. S. talkies, attributed to them the collapse of the English cinemindustry, the unemployment of hundreds of cinemactors, cinemactresses, an eight million dollar shrinkage in stock valuation...