Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While Harvard does not loom as Indiana's strongest opponent this season, after her defeat at the hands of Purdue, Indiana's sister school and traditional rival, the interest in this game will probably eclipse that in any contest of this year's schedule. Indiana is out to settle forever the supremacy of the West over the East, of the Big Ten over the Big Three, or its 1927 equivalent, of co-ed schools over the purely male variety, and in particular, of Indiana over Harvard. In addition a victory will establish their equality with Purdue and avenge the defeat...
...American people see and understand. Imperturbed, they move majestically forward in the consciousness that they are making their contribution in common with our sister nations to the progress of humanity." Another Pittsburgher of the Cabinet,* Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, accompanied President Coolidge back to Washington...
...John the Divine, on Morningside Heights, Manhattan, is the biggest cathedral in the U. S. Like its sister Episcopalian cathedral at Washington, it too seeks money ($15,000,000), and from the same clientele. Last week St. John the Divine's committee for completing the cathedral compared it with Washington Cathedral: "The Cathedral of St. John the Divine will be the third largest in the world, being surpassed in size only by St. Peter's in Rome and Seville in Spain.? Its total area is 109,082 square feet as compared with an area of 71,000 square feet...
Engaged. Princess Victoria zu Schaumburg-Lippe, 61, sister of the onetime (1888-1918) Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, widow of the late (1916) Prince Adolf zu Schaumburg-Lippe, to Alexander Zubkov, 27, Russian refugee...
...Latterly patrons have come to realize that Mr. Belasco erects meticulously-perfect sets and shrewdly constructed plots; but that often they do not mean much. This one might have meant a lot five years ago. It is a study of a high-strung virgin much in love with her sister's husband. The resulting tale of how she smashed his home with hysteric lies is another portrait of the sex-starved woman. There have been many such portraits in life and letters of late. Hidden is another good one; affords an interesting evening in the theatre; and never achieves...