Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buffalo, Toledo, Cleveland, Portland, New Orleans, Pittsburgh Philadelphia, San Francisco have had a greater number of murders than in the same period...
...Author. Events in the life of Willa Sibert Gather in no way reflect her steady growth from a college-girl reporter on the Pittsburgh Daily Leader to a deanship in American letters. Born of Virginian parents 49 years ago, she grew up in Nebraska, attending that state's university. From the Leader, she went to creative Writing, helped edit McClure's Magazine from 1906-12. She did not marry, but her literary offspring appeared at regular intervals, each more admirable than the last, until One of Ours took the 1922 Pulitzer Prize. In her quiet New York apartment...
...books on fertilizers, on grafting, on pheasant raising, as more sensible fellows may be doing, spends his evenings listening to talk about the condition of the soap and toothpaste industry, about stocks and bonds, about Florentine painting, about Peter Rabbit. To combat this absurdity the universities of Iowa, of Pittsburgh, and the Kansas State Agricultural College have seen fit to sow the wind with orderly knowledge, sending lectures through the air, giving college credits to those who can pass examinations on what they have heard. Last week these seats of airy learning announced their fall curricula...
...Pittsburgh Chancellor John G. Bowman led off last week with a talk on Spare Moments. Dr. A. G. Worthing explained the Nature of Electricity, or as much of it as he could. Lectures in the offing deal with Radium, X-rays, Structure of the Atom, Relativity-topics which will doubtless supply timely and needed information to the farmers...
...Kansas a rural school's program, though less recondite, is perhaps not less valuable than the programs of Iowa, of Pittsburgh. It begins at nine o'clock in the morning with wake-up exercises, and follows them with a music lesson, nature study, travel, lives of great men, books to read, current events. Five minutes are allotted to an agricultural primer of poultry, crops, dairying, horticulture, live stock...