Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sixteen hundred copies were printed, but 1000 have been set aside for the members of 1932, each of whom will be sent a copy by the College this summer free of charge. The other 600 copies give evidence of being too few to meet the great demand. The remaining booklets go on sale today at Amee's, the Harvard Cooperative Society, Phillips's Book Store, Felix's and the Crimson Building. The price...
...telegraph set was in many ways the best gift that Commodore Perry gave in 1854. The West knew very little about electricity at the time. Scientists and mechanics were still experimenting. And the Japanese learned with the rest of the world...
When the plaint of tobacco jobbers and retailers reached President George J. Whelan of the Union Tobacco Co.-that they were not making a living margin of profit on tobacco sales-President Whelan set up a smart system of selling them goodwill as well as tobacco. The system, as developed last week, is to give Union Tobacco stock shares to jobbers and retailers in proportion to their purchases. For every $1,000 of Union Tobacco goods a jobber buys he is to get one certificate of Union Tobacco stock worth nominally $30. That is a 3% bonus. For every...
Harry K. Thaw, Pittsburgh richman, killer of Architect Stanford White (1906), was tapped on the shoulder as he prepared to disembark from the Aquitania at Southampton, England. A steward asked him to go to the lounge where a British immigration official told him that he was not permitted to set foot on British soil. The only reason given him was "instructions from the Home Office." Befuddled, vexed, Mr. Thaw told reporters: "This is amazing. I cannot understand it at all. England was fair and square when I was here before, 23 years ago. ... I am a friend of Secretary Mellon...
Paradoxically, this is a highly sophisticated piece of writing, raising the standard of excellent prose Author Beer has already set up in Stephen Crane, Sandoval, The Mauve Decade...