Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contract for the new 60 inch reflecting telescope which is to be installed at Bloemfontein and which, as previously announced, will be the largest one in the Southern Hemisphere, has been awarded to a firm in Pittsburgh...
Westward of Philadelphia the distances were too long for peddlers, so freight creaked through the mountains to Pittsburgh at $3 per ton, on blue and red Conestoga wagons, the drivers rolling "stogies" between mudholes...
During the week of April 16, the Club will make a Mid-Western trip. The Harvard Clubs of Providence, Cleveland, and Albany will sponsor concerts in their respective cities: and in addition, New York, Buffalo, and Pittsburgh, and Washington will be visited. The schedule for this tour follows: April 16, Elk's Auditorium, Providence: April 18, Town Hall, New York: April 19, Hotel Stailer Ballroom, Buffalo: April 20, Masonic Hall, Cleveland: April 21, Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburgh: April 22, Masonic Auditorium, Washington: April 23, Chancellor's Hall, Albany...
Sirs: You state in TIME, March 7, that John A. Brashear, former distinguished astronomer of Pittsburgh was unknown to you.† We who knew him feel that you missed much. When his wife preceded him in death he wrote this timely epitaph: "Too often we've studied the stars together, to have any fear of the night." I've wondered whether anything was so poetically and appropriately written of him. when he went away from his beloved Pittsburgh-"into the night." MRS. JAMES A. HUSTON...
...Pittsburgh's "safety director," one James M. Clark, churchgoer, announced that the concerts would not be permitted. Music-lovers murmured. Safetyman Clark, officeholder, melted and said he would get an opinion from the city solicitor. But last week the orchestra, ''in preference to entering a religious controversy," canceled its own plans, explaining 1) tha Sunday had been chosen for the concerts because most of the civic musicians were employed by theatres on week days; 2) that the prevalence of organ recitals, park band concerts and radio jazz on Sundays in Pittsburgh, against which there had been...