Word: similarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...corporations, especially public utilities, to the Government was enlarged upon. The Illinois Bell Telephone Co., for example, was granted relief from low rates, after its application for increased rates had not been acted upon by a state board two years after it was made. Again the Court refused several similar actions where the public utility company had not made formal application for higher rates to state authorities. In another case the Court allowed the New York Telephone Co. to include as part of its property entitled to a reasonable return a reserve fund built up over a number of years...
...judges of the CRIMSON school newspaper competition that the cup for this year had been awarded to the Choate News. The Hill News and the Hotchkiss Record, at the same time, received honorable mention. This cup, donated by the senior editors of the CRIMSON, is the first of three similar prizes, also donated by the graduating editors, that will be presented for the next two years to those school papers, whose general make-up, news and editorials are most capably handled...
...Swedish Crown Prince. This honor had previously been accorded only to Cardial Mercier, Lord Kelvin, and Marshal Foch. The prince addressed the audience in Woolsey Hall after receiving the honor. Previous to the award conferred by the Yale authorities last night, the Crown Prince had received a similar degree at Princeton University...
...Superseding the earlier and somewhat similar "Gothenburg system...
...court paintership under Louis XV. Up and down went the bids, three-quarters of a million, eight-tenths, nine-tenths, the whole of a million francs (approximately $123,123). There the bidding paused, hesitated; the hammer fell. "Parbleu!" cried French dealers. "But what a bargain!" Before the War a similar De Latour brought thrice the price...