Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rise up to protest the regimentation of greater Boston's population into the ranks of the carillon audience. The Lowell House bells are not ordinary bells. It is the boast of the University that "under favorable conditions" they can be heard for a distance of fifteen miles. Among the million men, women, and children in that radius there are many sincere, conscientious objectors to bells in general, and to extra-size, extraloud ones in particular. Now it may be argued that good bell music benefits the listener, even though he may not know it, but such an attitude smacks...
...remainder of 1934. Compared to the enormous amounts the government has recently expended on a variety of projects, $25,000,000 is almost insignificant. It is altogether probable, however, that this relatively small sum properly spent will pay greater dividends in our future national welfare than a hundred million spent on new post office buildings or similar public projects...
Divorced. Oliver Hart Palmer Garrett, 37, oldtime New York World reporter, cinema writer and adapter (Moby Dick, City Streets, If I Had a Million, Story of Temple Drake); and Mrs. Louis Mumford Gignoux Garrett; in Los Angeles...
...graduate of 1929 been back on Vassar's campus last week she would have been struck first by physical changes-a half-million dollar gymnasium, an 18-hole golf course, four athletic fields, a Hall of Music. But as she talked with undergraduates and watched them about their work & play she would soon have detected a more important fact-five years of depression have done much to make rich Vassar girls serious and simple...
...notably intellectual, they study hard under a first-rate, liberal, largely male faculty, end their four years with well-furnished minds. They play equally hard-tennis, boating on Paradise Pond, singing in glee club, producing experimental plays and operas. At the cinema their hearts, like those of a million shopgirls, beat hardest for ruffianly Clark Gable. Since 1929 they have come to enjoy, without abusing, the privileges of smoking, drinking, motoring with men after dark. Smith proms, though far less elaborate than formerly, are still ranked top by most Eastern college men. Perhaps because it is the largest...