Word: small
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Shanghai was picked as the home of the school. An almost permanent agreement was made with the Chinese Red Cross Society, whereby the school was given the use of the Society's buildings. There is a main building containing offices, laboratories, lecture rooms and a small private hospital. Another building, a dormitory, is to be changed into a hospital, and replaced by a still larger dormitory. These facts show the kindly feeling of the Chinese to this American school...
...first day of August, 1913, outside of the small amount still due the Corporation on the Stadium account there were no liabilities, and there was on hand $34,017.21 in cash. For the first time, there has been a complete verification of all tickets received from the printers and disposed of. In the fall of 1912 there were received from the printers 140,287 tickets. Of these fifty-two were not accounted for, and this discrepancy was explained by statements from the Library Bureau, who handled the tickets for the big games that year. For other sports, about twenty thousand...
...story of the play centres in Bury St. Edmonds, a small town near London. A young gentleman from the metropolis mingles with the provincial society of the little town. There are two ladies, mother and daughter, whose ideas of social breeding are synonymous with their name, Fantast, and who are extremely eager to take up the latest arrival in fashion from Paris. Two old gentlemen of the town are continually playing practical jokes which would now be regarded as social errors rather than as marks of a cultivated intellect. The Londoner, a French barber, launches into the society...
...lack of books in such courses as Economics 2 and Social Ethics 1, where it is impossible for more than a small number of men to possess the numerous volumes themselves, would be in a large measure alleviated if attention were paid the familiar advice to do the reading early. But even making allowance for difficulties arising as a result of that particular human frailty of procrastination, there is still a very generally admitted insufficiency of books in many courses. At present no funds exist for the purchase of more books in such courses. Those books which the library owns...
...scene of the plot is laid in a small Sultanate of the Turkish Empire, and it deals with the stirring and humorous adventures of a young American multimillionaire, who is attempting to gain from the Sultan the exclusive purchasing rights of all royal rugs made in the country. After many thrilling events have taken place, including the placing of a death penalty upon his head, the adventurous young American not only corners the Turkish rug market, but wins the hand of the Sultan's daughter...