Word: somes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Two winters ago there arrived in the U. S. a Russian scientist, one Leon Sergeievitch Theremin (pronounced Termin), with an invention whereby he claimed music could be made with a wave of the hand. Had not strange tales of his "ether music" preceded him from Europe, doubtless few would have...
The janitors and scrub-ladies of the educational world last week cleaned floors and windows, dusted desks in high, stale-smelling rooms. Keen was the anticipation of many a college-town merchant. For soon the student army began to appear-some in new, curious, heterogeneous clothing, consciously striving to seem...
¶ HERE'S TO DEAR OLD YALE, TEAR HER DOWN, TEAR HER DOWN was the caption once run under a drawing by one Robert Osborne in the Yale Record (funny monthly). The pic ture showed a grotesque jumble of destruction out of which soared tangled fingers of new structural...
¶ At Lawrenceville School (N. J.) a new infirmary was dedicated last week. Cost : some $225,000. Chief campaigner: Charles Gates Dawes.
¶ At Chicago University, the president's house was not in commission. So Presi dent Robert Maynard Hutchins, 30, obtained from Yale last June, to be inducted in November, is living temporarily as the house guest of Harold Higgins Swift, potent meat packer and Chicago Trustee. A studio for...