Word: origination
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seventy-eight volumes of the "Journal of the Royal Statistical Society", giving English financial statistics from 1839 to 1870 is another feature of the collection, together with Anderson's "Origin of Commerce", printed at London in 1789, and one of the first English histories showing the effect of commerce upon the British Empire. A complete collection of the writings of American economists, and pamphlets dealing with early monetary measures in the Colonies, is another important division of the collection...
...Vagabond is the descendant of an ancient family of wanderers--some say of Hebraic origin, though this is open to much doubt. Indeed, the whole matter is so deeply shrouded in the dust of time, that no one, least of all the Vagabond himself, who was not present at the time, knows rightly whether, so to speak, the family jewels are paste or diamond. De mortuis nil nisi bonum. Very incidentally be it said, that the present Mr. Joseph Forecast belongs to a collateral branch of the family though it is not always well on Beacon Hill to admit that...
...heard other students being called by friends, but was never called himself until he went out under his own window and shouted his own name, is a story based on tragi-comic fact. The story spread quickly; its pathetic aspects were soon forgotten, its humor remembered; finally its very origin became somewhat obscure. Many are the vociferous young men who make hideous the soft spring evenings without knowing why they do so, without realizing why the syllables of "Rinehart" should be echoing from Holworthy to Grays...
...have always felt that Toledo is only as great as its industries," explained President Alfred B. Koch in describing the origin of this impressive show. In order suitably to glorify these industries, the department store turned to Art. It scorned half measures, hired Arthur Covey, internationally famed mural painter. Six times he visited Toledo and peered appreciatively at Toledo industry. He went to work, telling the story of Toledo with tubes of paint & with brushes...
Fradd traces the origin of the posture classes, which were first given at the University in 1919, to experience gained in the World War, when many men broke down under the strain of war service, and had to be built up by special exercises in camps established behind the lines in France. Exercises developed at that time proved effective in restoring health to men whose faulty body balance was responsible for a low grade of health...