Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pierian Sodality Orchestra is the oldest institution of its kind in America. Its purpose is to bring the best in contemporary music before the American people. Already several modern compositions have been used, but selections from Mozart, Mendelssohn, Shubert, and Beethaven still predominate...
...Admiral Beatty Hotel" being erected in St. Johns, Nova Scotia. There is no St. Johns in Nova Scotia. St. Johns is in Newfoundland. The Admiral Beatty Hotel is being erected not in Nova Scotia, but in St. John, New Brunswick, the well-known seaport, and one of the oldest cities in the Dominion...
WHITE CARGO?One of the oldest settlers still telling its fervid tale of white men and brown women in the wastes of Africa...
...October 31, William and Mary will meet the University in the Stadium. This will bring the two oldest colleges in the United States together for the first time, William and Mary having been founded in 1693. The latter team has made rapid strides in the last few years in attaining football fame. It is coached by J. W. Tasker, who graduated from Syracuse, a pupil of the Rockne school of football. Knute Rockne himself, who was formerly connected with the William and Mary faculty, reorganized football coaching there two years ago, and since that time the college has met with...
...Other rooms there are, innumerable; also many rare and valuable pieces of Colonial art. First among these was a painting, said to be the oldest existing U. S. portrait. It shows the countenance of Jacobus Gerritsen Striker, chief burgomaster of New Amsterdam during the governorship of Peter Stuyvesant, painted by himself. In velvet jacket, linen collar, with a three-bottle flush that time cannot temper nor death dismay, he stares out, that burgomaster, at the intrusion of the centuries...