Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profane discords emanating from the sanctum of the "oldest college daily" came at a particularly unfortunate time. On the day before Yale sends an army into the field to debate the qualifications of the two major presidential candidates, treason is found at the very heart of the home garrison. Even the modest veiling with a dash is insufficient to conceal the glaring weakness of undergraduate support tendered the Yale men on the eve of battle. Those who know the real story behind the debaters appearances tonight, will have trouble in back the emotion sure to be evoked by this latest...
...touchy conscience, abandons him to suicide. Author Gibbs does not prove the necessity of something more than a "Great Design" behind evolutionary progress, but he does write an engrossing story packed with engaging data on the younger generation full of life, the older generation full of ideas, and the oldest generation full of monkey glands...
...York Banks. Bank of the Manhattan Co., second oldest in the U. S.,* is absorbing the First National Bank (founded 1852) of Brooklyn, that community's oldest commercial bank. Combined resources: close...
Concert Managers. Wolfsohn Musical Bureau (oldest in the U. S.) sold out to Concert Management Arthur Judson, Inc. (most potent); at the same time Arthur Judson's affiliated Judson Radio Program Corp. bought out Adams Broadcasting Service...
...centuries, marble and Carrara have been synonymous in the hills of Italy's Tuscany. Synonymous, too, have been Carrara and Fabbricotti. For of all the families who have hacked and hewed in the quarries of Carrara, the family of the Fabbricotti is oldest and greatest. When the two chiefs of the Fabbricotti-Guido Murray and Carlo Andrea-ride on horseback to their deep pits in the hills, they may reflect that their ancestors have ridden in just such a way, to the same pits, for some 500 years. It was in the 15th century that the head...