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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doing it. In the parlance of trade, the colleges are in a buyers' market. As Mr. Lowell, of Harvard, puts it: "The idea that going to college is one of the inherent rights of man seems to have obtained a baseless foothold in the minds of many people. To select the fit and devote our energies to them is our duty to the public for whose service we exist...
...board, which will serve in an advisory capacity to the officers of the organization, will select the exhibits to be given and will help in arranging them...
Here the authors put in what the producers perhaps thought was a touch original enough to warrant a $300,000 investment. The husband is unable to solve the situation. He goes back to his ship, leaving Dorothy Mackaill to select her own alternative. Safe in Hell is crude, trite, sporadically exciting...
...Meeting. In Washington at the call of Chairman Fess assembled the Republican National Committee to select next year's convention city. A likely choice: Chicago, with a $125,000 cash...
Sargon's Bull. No great number of Chicagoans, even of the select 300 who attended the Oriental Institute's opening, could begin to comprehend the myriad minute implications of the million-&-one mummies, skeletons, sculptures, potteries, cuneiform tablets and other miscellaneous objects with which the new building was nearly packed. Yet even an early Swift or Cudahy would have understood and taken solid satisfaction from Dr. Breasted's prize exhibit - a monster, 40-ton stone bull, set up in the main (Egyptian) hall facing the big bronze gates. No U. S. bull was ever like this...