Word: philadelphian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...results, in the form of phonograph records, will be put on sale in September at $1 each. Dr. Greet expects to make 14 records by December, including those of a Manhattan truckdriver, a Tennessee mountaineer, a pure Philadelphian. Eventually, he hopes to make 50 records...
...Pennsylvania Museum exhibited several loan collections of an interesting but not startling nature. It will require many years before the magnificent edifice, built upon Greek lines out of polychromatic stones, can secure paintings which justify either its exterior or the panegyrics lavished upon it by onetime Senator Pepper and Philadelphian news-sheets...
John D. Rockefeller III (student) was elected vice-president of the Philadelphian Society at Princeton University The society's purpose is to promote religion among the undergraduates. William S. Mitchell of Little Rock, Ark., was elected president...
...people who came to the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, on the day a prize was to be awarded to that Philadelphian who had performed the most noteworthy service to the community of which his city is the centre, had no idea to whom it would be given. Most of them were distinguished Philadelphians, including the giver of the prize, Edward W. Bok, onetime editor of the Ladies Home Journal; a few looked with hope and excitement at the ivory casket, which stood on the speaker's stand, containing a gold medal, a scroll and a check...
...PHILADELPHIAN...