Word: showings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the near completion of the steel stands enclosing the Stadium, figures announced yesterday by the Athletic Association show an unexpected saving of $15,000, according to the estimates of W. J. Bingham '16, Director. Originally planned at a cost of $170,000 the steel stands over the running track and enclosing the open end of the Stadium, will now probably come to no more than the total...
...best flyer, Lieut. James Harold Doolittle. Able was he, in a college boxing tournament at the University of California some years ago, to hold his own-and a little more than his own-against strapping Eric Pedley, eight-goal California poloist (see p. 64). At the Cleveland Air Show last month. Flyer Doolittle flew the wings off a ship, diving at 200 m.p.h. Floating down in his parachute he laughed at the episode and took up another stunting ship immediately. The Army Air Corps has a questionnaire which flyers must fill out after accidents. Last week, newspapers had fun printing...
...worked in all the departments of his father's bank, served in the Y. M. C. A. during the War. Of this obscurity Banker Rand quickly divested himself. That year he became assistant secretary of The Marine Trust Co., the next year vice president. In 1921, anxious to show he could do something for himself besides running his father's bank, Mr. Rand with some young friends acquired an interest in the Buffalo Trust Co. He was made president, soon opened many branch offices, piled up resources at a terrific clip. In 1926 the Buffalo Trust and the Marine Trust...
...Boston audiences" continued Mlle. Keila, "like jugglers. I am not a juggler." She expressed relief that in two weeks the show was to move to Spring-field, which, it was understood, though better than Boston, was still within the boundaries of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
...life work. "My poor, dear teacher," she said, with little trace of either pity or affection, "was Turassof. Of course eventually I intend to do concert work. For the present, however I shall continue in musical comedy with my partner Mlle. Lezandre, who also dances in this show. Although Mlle. Lezandre and I have little in common in the plot of the present performance, we are the best of friends, and intend to work together in the future...