Word: return
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ford plantations are on the Tapajoz River, tributary of the Amazon. By a contract made last year with the State of Para and the Brazilian Government, Mr. Ford promised to plant 3,000 acres of rubber trees within four years. In return his rubber will be exempt from export taxes for twelve years, and he may import free of duty all materials necessary to the development of his plantation...
Those contemplating an early return to the house parties so rudely interrupted by a compulsory first class after a holiday would do well to wait until 11 o'clock this morning. At 10 o'clock in the Music Building, Miss Rozi Varady, distinguished Hungarian cellist will appear in a program composed of selections from the works of Haydn and a group of old dances...
...Semitic Museum has come the archaeological and inscriptional material. The inscribed clay tablets, some two thousand in number, rank first in importance. It is understood that we shall return a portion of these to the Museum at Bagdad, after publication of the inscriptions in this country. From some hundreds found in one of the rooms excavated, Professor Chiera, while still at Nuzi, selected 107 and copied them on 100 plates. These will appear at an early date as a volume of the "Harvard Semitic Series...
...conducted as usual, and that those living at a distance should be prevented from spending the day with their families, is it necessary also to deprive them of the pleasure that would otherwise result from the short recess, by asking them to prepare for an examination immediately after their return...
...before, it was considered hardly right to make any one return for a recitation, though the preparation of this took up but a short time of the vacation, is it just, now, to impose upon us an examination in preparation for which, if we hope to pass at all fairly, we shall be obliged to spend nearly the whole of the two days allowed? For even if it is argued that we should be prepared at all times for examination, every one knows that not even the most persistent "dig"--and perhaps he least of all--would wish...