Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first office being in the Montgomery Block, built in 1853 and still standing, being one of the very few pioneer buildings in San Francisco which have survived the march of time. We have a record of 16 brave firemen killed in the line of duty during the period of the Volunteer Fire Department. They evidently did more than breaking windows and throwing slung shots. ALBERT EDWARD CONLON Vice President Historical Society of the San Francisco Fire Dept. San Francisco, Calif...
...between, singers rarely being assigned more than four or five consecutive lines. Cimarosa's 145-year-old opéra bouffe, The Secret Marriage, had its Metropolitan premiere. It proved to be tenuous but gay, would have been gayer had singers not treated it like a period piece...
...more lyric vein, Mr. Babson concludes that the only safe hedges are things like health, culture, children, friendship, birds, flowers, the sea and the sky. And Mr. Babson advises against entering any period of inflation or revolution without a clear conscience. "Jesus may not have been much of a theologian," admits this moderator of the Congregationalist Church. "He, however, was a real economist...
That the inoculation will not be a mere injection of the needle is obvious in the nigh-failure of the independent reading system here at Princeton. The success of this month's reading period will prove to a degree whether or not Princeton may be compared with Harvard in the realm of intellectual curiosity and integrity...
Last year 66,000 people were conducted on sight-seeing tours through the Yard and adjoining grounds by University-appointed students. Unfortunately the guide service was organized only for the summer Tercentenary period and was immediately disbanded at the end of September. The conducted tours served their purpose, so well that for a number of reasons a continuation of the experiment is highly desirable...