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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sister of five Harvard graduates" is the only name given by the only woman to subscribe to the Alumni Bulletin's Louvain Library Fund, according to announcement made in this week's issue of the Bulletin which will appear this morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BULLETIN SWELLS LOUVAIN TOTAL | 2/15/1924 | See Source »

...inventor, George Bowerman, is experimenting with a type of quartz glass to withstand the heat. Red rays are absent from the spectrum of the big bulb, which closely resembles that of sunlight. The lamp will be used in moving picture studios and color photography. The minute sister bulb was the one used recently by Dr. Chevalier Jack- son, distinguished Philadelphia surgeon, to illuminate the throat of an 8-months-old baby from which he extracted a tack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Biggest Bulb | 2/11/1924 | See Source »

Recently he came to youth, did busts of Miss Barbara Whitney, and of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. Versatility of technique is a characteristic of Davidson. He has taken what he wants from the art of other lands, mellowed a style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Violet Ray | 2/4/1924 | See Source »

Fashion Row. By a clever manipulation of wigs, Mae Murray contrives to do a successful sister act. As her older sister, she is a Russian immigrant in New York who rises to the brilliant dignity of a star in the local theatrical firmament and marries into a Mayflower family. All this under the pretense that she is a princess. Discarding the black wig and the tragedy manner, she again arrives in New York? this time as her younger sister? wide-eyed and penniless. On the same boat is an oily anarchist who discovers the interlocking relationships, gets them all together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 4, 1924 | 2/4/1924 | See Source »

Died. Ex-Grand Duchess Marie Adelaide of Luxembourg, 29, Carmelite nun since 1920 when she abdicated in favor of her sister Charlotte, now reigning Duchess of Luxembourg; at Hohenburg castle, Bavaria. When the Germans demanded passage through Luxembourg on their way to attack France, she formally protested by drawing her automobile across the street in front of the advancing army. Neither she nor the Luxembourg Government (Germany's forced auxiliary) opposed forcibly, however...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 4, 1924 | 2/4/1924 | See Source »

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