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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wade Prize was founded in memory of Lee Wade, 2d '14, while the Boylston prizes are of older origin, being founded in 1817 in honor of Nicholas Boylston by Ward Nicholas Boylston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WADE, BOYLSTON PRIZE SPEAKERS ARE CHOSEN | 3/20/1937 | See Source »

...judge to the Third Circuit, for the reason that Judge Victor Baynard Woolley, aWilsonian Democrat, has been seriously ill for two years. Interesting was the appointment of a fifth judge because ailing Judge Woolley will be 70 this month and the other three members of the court are all older than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Simulacrum | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

That was Aug. 4, 1802. A week later, following the inquest, Lizzie Borden was indicted for the murder of her father and stepmother. It was known that the Bordens were not a happy family. Lizzie and her older sister (who was visiting friends at the time of the murders) resented their stepmother, kept to themselves as much as possible in the front of the house. By Fall River standards of those days, Mr. Borden was a rich man. Two days before the inquest, Lizzie burned up a dress. Her testimony at the inquest-she was never put on the stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forty Whacks | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

Every year the Senior Fellows select several outstanding younger men who become Junior Fellows and frequently meet and dine with the older group...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITEHEAD TO REMAIN AS FELLOW NEXT YEAR | 3/5/1937 | See Source »

...continued to gain about three inches every year. At one time his mother, by standing tiptoe, could touch his shoulder, and his older sister could walk hand-in-hand with him without making him stoop. But no longer. Only comfortable way for him to motor is astride the car or in a truck. His suits require nine yards of cloth. Shoes, haberdashery and suits all must be specially made for him. His shoe size is 36 and shoemakers make much of him at their Chicago conventions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Alton Giant | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

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