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My door had a Yale lock and letters went into a row of little boxes at the bottom of each staircase each with its own combination lock. My combination I never knew, which didn't matter as I had no letters; but I had great fun "listening for the tumblers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English Student Visiting at Tercentenary Finds Harvard's Seven Houses Similar to Those at Cambridge University | 1/29/1937 | See Source »

Notable among the tumblers are Ancient History, which fell from 1848 papers to 587 since 1932. Latin (9193 to 4572), and Mathematics (16,859 to 10,573).

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Entrance Exam Report Shows Girls Are Better Scholars Than Boys | 1/12/1937 | See Source »

One afternoon last week in the swank offices of Attorneys Pritzker & Pritzker, on the 22nd floor of Chicago's Metropolitan Building, a happy scene took place. Four very stylishly dressed little men beamed and pumped the hands of newshawks, eagerly posed this way and that way for photographers, put...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Staushov to State Street | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

It was Torvald Hoyer's passion for painting that first made him an acrobat. Son of a well-known Copenhagen coal-dealer, he started posing for the Danish court painter Frants Henningsen at the age of 13, later studied in his studio. When Torvald was 19 and a great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Neoterics' Acrobat | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

Last week able William Edward Levis, head of Owens-Illinois Glass Co., took over Libbey Glass Manufacturing Co. Libbey makes tumblers, glasses, finger-bowls, pitchers, all manner of glass tableware, is not to be confused with Libbey-Owens-Ford which makes plate glass. With the glass business, like the bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Libbey to Levis | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

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