Word: similars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain and many another European state, France has long had a system of restricting U. S. film imports. The reason is similar to that which caused Congress to put a tariff on French gowns and hats. Supreme and unrivaled in their own fields are Parisian modistes and Hollywood producers. As yet, however, Congress has not decreed that for every three gowns that a Parisienne sells in the U. S., she must buy one U. S. gown and try to sell it in France. The uproar, the heaven-piercing cries for justice which would rise from...
...many Nebraskans were blunt, blind, interpreted everything in financial terms. If Architect Goodhue had been alive last week he would probably have been miserable again. For the Nebraska capitol, now all but completed, was again being impugned. The charges lodged with the state legislature were identical in source and similar in substance to those which harassed the architect in 1923. Last week George E. Johnson, onetime Nebraska State Engineer, itemized various flaws-a great terrace bulging through its stone confines, priceless columns of tinted marble that were chipped and had been deceptively repaired; cracked stones. In 1923 his charges...
...mingled with the more serious matter of Mr. Quincy's essay and a general smile lit up the countenances of the audience to whom bequests of thousands of dollars were familiar, to hear him read records of donations to the College of an iron spoon and pewter cup, or similar articles. Most or the ladies rushed from the house to see the procession move to the Pavilion, a few, perhaps half a dozen, were detained accidentally in the gallery, and formation of the procession in the Church, which they witnessed, constituted one of the most interesting and affecting scenes...
...Isaac Lothrop Rogers, of Brookline, two scholarships to be established in memory of the father and mother of her husband, the late Isaac Lothrop Rogers '81. The first of these scholarships, with a stipend of $500, will bear the name of Charles E. Rogers, and the second, with a similar income, will be known as the Martha Symmes Rogers Scholarship. These awards will be available to undergraduates of the College...
...long periods of inclement weather. The Vagabond is forced to admit that he finds himself more akin to the latter, and in an effort to find material for cheer during the current period of depression made some discoveries that may assist those of his readers who admit to a similar weakness...