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Word: similars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into Administrative language is a new threat against foreign producers who undervalue their imports to cheat the U. S. tariff. If the U. S. appraiser is not satisfied with the foreign valuation placed on an article for import, he may apply U. S. valuation, i. e., the value of similar articles produced and sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Bill Out | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

What had happened was that Dr. Shields, believing he had seen the gleam of Modernism in the eyes of a Des Moines University professor, had asked President Wayman to expel him and six others who seemed to have similar gleams. President Wayman had refused. A meeting of the board of trustees upheld Dr. Shields and his loyal secretary-treasurer. Thereupon Dr. Shields exuberantly expelled everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Noble Inspiration | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...scholarships, established in 1925 by the Commonwealth Fund of New York, of which Edward S. Harkness is president, are similar to the Rhodes Scholarships and were inaugurated in order to give British students an opportunity to study in America and to foster good will between the United States and Great Britain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMONWEALTH AWARDS TO BRING FOUR BRITONS HERE | 5/15/1929 | See Source »

...writer continued his financial discussion by stating that "The vote of the Council to establish a graduate advisory committee--would indicate a self-confession of the Council's inability successfully to run its own affairs." I cannot perceive the logic in such a conclusion. Does the presence of a similar graduate committee on the Lampoon and the Advocate and the Dramatic Club and the CRIMSON carry a like significance? The Debating Council chose to elect a graduate committee because such a committee is found affiliated with every stable and lasting undergraduate organization in Cambridge, and also because it will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debated Points | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

...rollicking rhythms of several syncopated operettas, including Rainbow, Funny Face, The Five O'Clock Girl, Sally, Peggy Ann, Tell Me More, Here's Howe. These diversions, all but two of them new to St. Louis, will be staged by the newly-founded Theatre Society of St. Louis, similar to Manhattan's Theatre Guild. From more than 400 applicants, 32 agile St. Louis girls have been selected to skip in the choruses. Other St. Louisans are designing scenery, working backstage. Famed headliners-Mary Eaton, Leon Errol, Lulu McConnell-have already accepted contracts for the summer season. Like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: In St. Louis | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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