Word: philadelphian
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...According to despatches, a Philadelphian, to show his friend how the moot blow landed, pinched his friend quickly on stomach and chin. The friend toppled, fractured his skull, died...
...Princeton in recent years he acquired a stout following chiefly among members of the Philadelphian Society, the university Christian organization. These young men, made zealous, tried to bring their friends to grace, delving with dangerous ignorance into delicate problems. The university authorities asked Mr. Buchman to keep away, banned his technique...
Following the report B. F. Cogan '23 and R. P. Bullard '24 will entertain the guests with some specialty acts and songs. Anson Stokes Jr. president of the Yale University Christian Association, Charles A. Howard Jr., president of the Philadelphian Society of Princeton University and W. G. Saltenstall '28, president of the Phillips Brooks Association for 1927-28, will then give brief talks...
...Barnes Foundation is five years old, endowed in perpetuity by proceeds from the chemical business, one of whose big money-makers is Argyrol (silver preparation for infected mucous membranes). From Argyrol to Art seems a long way to many a Philadelphian, but in the dictionary of Dr. Albert C. Barnes the two words are almost adjacent...
...wish to make it plain that we are more interested in contributing to the great architecture of the world than in standardizing the bricks and mortar of which it must be made." Thus Milton B. Medary Jr., Philadelphian, president of the American Institute of Architects, epitomizing the purpose for which the Institute has reorganized its Committee on Allied Arts. In order to emphasize their profession as an Art, the architects have added to their committee a representative of sculpture, arts-in-trade, of mural painting, and Architect Ferruccio Vitale of Manhattan, a trustee of the American Academy in Rome...