Word: units
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...error is quite unimportant, and I would not call it to your attention had I not been reliably informed that your identification of me as at present a unit in the Globe organization is regarded by the Globe management as "most unfortunate." I assured my informant that I would ask you to correct the error...
...active campaigner against liquor.* Mr. Piggott by the time of his death (TIME, July 29) had built up his Pacific Coast Steel Co. and its subsidiary, Southern California Iron & Steel Co., to an annual capacity of 380,000 tons-40,000 more than Columbia Steel, only complete steel unit west of the Rockies, managed then by San Francisco's powerful Fleishhacker-SIoss interests...
...Nock, Fellow of Clare College Cambridge University, who is to speak here in the near future, feels that the Harvard Yard has a unique atmosphere which he finds "charming". In an interview yesterday he declared that Harvard is somewhat more extensive than Cambridge University but seems more a unit. In describing Cambridge, he said, "You stumble on bits of it here and there...
...Graduate Hospital experienced some trouble in providing high-grade instruction. Across Manhattan was Reconstruction Hospital which specialized in such work. Nothing could be wiser than to merge the two institutions, decided their directors, a process which was going forward last week. Reconstruction Hospital will be, after Jan. 1, a unit of what will be formally, as always popularly, called Post Graduate Hospital...
Harvard's $11,000,000 experiment in small-unit education, to be inaugurated next fall with 522 students in the new Dunster and Lowell houses, is holding the attention of those who think about educational progress. The New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor have already viewed the project favorably: they see desirability in splitting the huge masses of students at our great universities into more wiedly groups, at the same time retaining the skilled instruction and superior facilities of a large institution...