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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...term "Realtor" was coined in 1916 and defined by the National Association of Real Estate Boards to mean a person engaged in the real estate business who is an active member of a Member Board of the National Association of Real Estate Boards...
NATHAN WILLIAM MACCHESNEY National Association of Real Estate Boards, Chicago, Ill. Let subscribers note well that TIME will invariably designate "active members of member boards of the National Association of Real Estate Boards" as "Realtors." In conformance with general usage, TIME may also refer to any person who traffics or dabbles in real estate as a "realtor." Thus, while all "Realtors" are "realtors," not all "realtors" are "Realtors."-ED. Camel & Chesterfield Magazine Sirs: Your excellent publication might easily be termed the Chesterfield of magazines-"it satisfies," and from my personal viewpoint the word Camel would certainly apply...
There is no person to whom Harvard College owes more than to her first President, Henry Dunster. A graduate of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and minister of his native village of Bury in Lancashire, he left England at the age of thirty rather than conform to the Laudian reforms. A reputation for learning preceded him; and in August 1640, three weeks after arriving in Boston, he was elected President of Harvard College, by the Board of Overseers...
...Slovenes, it was hoped that the ends of democracy, self-determination, and all the other idealistic phrases current at the time had been served with a finality that would leave everyone happy. But unfortunately the Serbs, who happened to find themselves the uppermost of the three in the person of the king, have had so much trouble convincing the other members to the agreement of their good fortune that it has just been found necessary to declare a dictatorship, and dispense with parliamentary forms entirely...
Although the mechanical system of the intramural exchange is similar to the regular city exchange, the Harvard switchboard is individual in one respect. To a person calling University 7600, comes the response, "Harvard", rather than the usual "number please" of other exchanges. An interesting feature of this exchange is the ability of all three operators to give without hesitation the number and addresses of all officers and professors connected with the University...