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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These individual conferences will have no effect on the plan announced yesterday for a meeting in Harvard 1 at 1.30, when the Macy representative will explain the training courses of from six to eight months that his company offers "to span the period of adjustment between college with its theoretical training and business with its practical demands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: R. H. MACY'S EMPLOYMENT AGENT TO GIVE VOCATIONAL ADVICE | 2/26/1924 | See Source »

...bombs-enough to wreck a city. Yet with this enormous load the plane will reach a height of 13,500 feet, and at lower altitudes be able to fly with one of its motors completely out of commission. With a wing area of 1,500 square feet, a span of nearly 100 feet, it will be second in size only to the great Barling Bomber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Fokker's Predictions | 2/11/1924 | See Source »

...golfing propensities of statesmen an unmistakable sign of the immaturity of mankind. Seventy years, he says, are barely long enough to outgrow the childish pastimes of games and frivolities. In order for man to become sufficiently mature to solve intelligently the problems of civilization he must increase his span of life; he must finally outgrow golf and all of the meaningless trifling that it represents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A GOLFING CIVILIZATION | 1/22/1924 | See Source »

Harvard men who wear the rowing "H" have a longer span of life than the American experience Tables predict for the average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Athletic Longevity | 1/14/1924 | See Source »

...double span of football life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Dec. 10, 1923 | 12/10/1923 | See Source »

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