Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first place, Mr. Loree or any other reputable railroader is entirely in order when he devises a plan for railroad consolidation. Nothing in the fast-moving U. S. has so dawdled and daggled as rail road consolidation -except possibly Prohibition enforcement. The I. C. C. has moved with the sloth of an iceberg. It now promises to come out soon with the basis of a plan. For years the public has been bored with dozens of plans mostly quite unoriginal...
...instrument, Professor Theremin announced, was to abolish the mechanical difficulties of technique, to place music-making within the scope of anyone able to hum a tune. Rights of manufacture, he hinted, were for sale...
...possibility of its leading to sexual promiscuity. But that argument grows weaker daily, for men and women are daily growing more promiscuous anyway." The American Birth Control League has called for a first national conference on birth control, "to consider its social, moral, religious, economic and legal aspects." Place: Manhattan. Time...
Mlle. Maya Keila, prima ballerina in Christopher Morley's revival "The Black Crook," is not much interested in Harvard students or in college men in general. Or such was the statement she made in an interview which took place during the matinee last Saturday behind the scenes in the Shubert Apollo Theatre...
Among the many events planned for the coming season, a newly innovated trip to Smith College to sing with the Smith Glee Club is outstanding. Before this trip, which will take place on January 4, a joint concert is planned for the Harvard Glee Club, the Yale Glee Club and the Harvard Instrumental Club on the night preceding the Yale game...