Word: similarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Borrowed Love, similar neuroses lead to similar adjustments, but with far less convincing effect. John Carter was a virile, mighty halfback at the University. But in later, married life he contracted influenza which left him obsolete as a proper husband. Considerate of his wife's resulting deprivations, he persuades her to allow him to introduce Tom Bradford, potent theatrical manager...
...about 98½% iron or steel and 1½% of tin-the tin being merely a coating or plate over the steel. Tin, contrary to common supposition, does not rust, corrode or tarnish. Tin is used by itself chiefly in tinfoil, used in wrapping chocolate bars, cigarets and similar products, and also in the manufacture of collapsible tubing, as in shaving-cream and toothpaste tubes. Tin can be hammered so thin that one pound of tin is enough for 18,500 square inches of tinfoil...
This fact is strikingly shown by the increase from four degrees awarded to men summa cum laude last year to twenty this year. In the same way the number of Ph.D.s has increased showing a similar trend in the graduate schools. President Lowell can well be proud of the Harvard he has brought to what the ancient Greeks would have called a state of "happiness." Harvard also, can well be proud of the leader under whose vigorous, yet quiet direction, she has attained such pleasant heights...
...will open on the river. It will be higher, over twice as large a Standish, however, and there will be two subsidiary courts or gardens of each side of the main one. These all will look out on the river. Unit No 2 will be crowned with a "lantern" similar to that on the present business school. Professor Julian Coolidge to be in charge of Unit No. 1 an Professor Chester N. Greenough will be master of the House on the river...
...musical education last week under the terms of the will of Music Publisher Charles H. Ditson. Beneficiaries are: Harvard, Yale, Columbia. Princeton, New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Chicago Musical College, Cincinnati College of Music, Ann Arbor School of Music (University of Michigan). The terms of bequest are similar. The money may be used for one or more of these purposes outlined in the will: to maintain a chair or chairs of music, musical history, or musical esthetics; to maintain scholarships or fellowships in music; to give public performances; to do anything-musical...