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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that region, show once again that the triumphs of Harvard scholarship are far from being confined to Cambridge. If present hopes are realized, the discoveries made by Mr. Bowles and his party, although taking place in remotest Asia, will throw an essential light on the perplexing problem of the origin of the American Indian, a subject of inestimable value to the study of this country's past...
Columbia College traces its origin to a law entitled "An act for raising the sum of two thousand, two hundred and fifty pounds, by a public lottery for this colony, for the encouragement of learning, and for the founding of a college within the same...
...Chicken Survey." Michael Weintraub, a onetime cloak & suit man, was not happy about his relief job. That job was to go from door to door, ask each New York housewife her origin, nationality, family income, number in family, number of children, number of servants, number of boarders; whether she had bought any poultry in the past seven days; if so, what day, what kind of fowl, what weight, what cost per Ib.; was it slaughtered in New York; was it plucked? He was also supposed to gather data on eggs, but Michael Weintraub said sadly that the door was usually...
...former became the later and the latter became the former, with a third boat hovering in the van as a dark horse. It's all very simple. Anyone who wishes to become a member of the Princeton Crew should communicate with the proper authorities. Do not be discouraged. Origin, prep school, former experience, are of no more importance than the size of your underwear...
...blaze was of unknown origin and the firemen made short work of putting it out. There was no damage to the building...