Word: pers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard CRIMSON views the change which the University will make for meals as "contrary to an ancient Harvard policy and bound to arouse opposition from all those who prize this tradition of individualism and non-interference." And elsewhere a former Harvard man expresses the opinion that the charge per week virtually says: "Unless you are rich and can waste money, you must eat all your luncheons and dinners here...
...years has supervised experiments on Inventor Edison's ideas. The man who has for 19 years tried to keep the ideas from public garbling is a precise, British-born lawyer named William Henry Meadowcroft, 76. Last week Secretary Meadowcroft was exasperated by reports that he had predicted 16? per lb.: the present low price of real rubber, as the price of golden-rod rubber.† Neither Inventor Edison nor anyone in his organization could guess yet at manufacturing costs or how many acres of goldenrod would produce a ton of rubber...
...Cheapest (English) artificial rubber, made from hydrocarbons, costs 75? per...
There were 2,977,500 copies. Each copy weighed 1 lb., 14 oz. Its 272 pages, containing 275,000 words of editorial matter, comprised 295-1/6 sq. ft., enough to paper the ceiling of a room 24½ ft. x 12 ft. An average reader (225 words per minute) would take 20 hr., 20 min., to peruse it. Sixty 45-ton presses, working night & day shifts, printed it in three weeks. A total of 214 national advertisers appeared in it, 63 in color. At an average of $9,000 per page, the advertising revenue was approximately...
...learned that wild ducks and geese fly about 10,000 miles a season. Long distance champion is the Arctic tern, which wings some 20,000 miles per season, nesting in the Arctic, wintering in the Antarctic. Chief Redington declared that the number of migratory game birds is fast dwindling in the U. S. Every citizen has a right to kill them in season (some states allow 25 such killings a day). Modern hunters use modern mass-destruction methods, such as automatic and repeating shotguns, live decoys, baited ducking grounds. Ducks die by the million from improper refuges like the Bear...