Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Hurlbut was born in Shelburne. Vermont on February 10, 1865. He received his A. B. degree at Harvard in 1887 and his A. M. the following year. He worked in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences until 1890 at which time he took over the duties of an instructor in English, receiving an Assistant Professorship in 1901 and a full Professorship in 1906. He acted a Dean of Harvard College from 1902 until 1916. Since that time he has been conducting English courses in the College...
...technically belonging to King George, but whose administration and revenue are in the hands of the provincial governments. Greatest Canadian papermaker is the U. S.-owned International Paper & Power Co. This gargantuan corporation controls under long-term leases, or owns outright, forest land equal in area to New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts. Despite the enormous consumption of newsprint in the U. S. and Canada, paper production is still greater. Prices are low. For the past year the I. P. & P. and its smaller competitors have been paying provincial governments toll for paper made from timber grown on Crown land, sold...
...Coolidge and I are particularly fond of pets and had not been married long when we decided that we must have a cat and, of course, the best cats hail from our native state. Accordingly, to Vermont we sent for a cat. A tiny tiger kitten arrived not long after we made our desires known. . . . When we took him out of the box . . . the little thing was so sleepy and tired from long hours . . . on the train that he toppled over drowsily and went to sleep at once." The kitten was named Bounder. He enjoyed playing with water...
...complete schedule for next year is as follows: October 4, Vermont; 11, Springfield; 18, Army; 25, Dartmouth; November 1, William and Mary; 8, Michigan; 15, Holy Cross; 22, Yale...
...former piece one can only rejoice at its reappearance. It is by all odds one of the most successful of the Westerns with Gary Cooper capturing the spirit of Owen Wister's hero to perfection. Mary Brian is attractive if a trifle too sophisticated for a Vermont schoolteacher out to educate the younger generation in Wyoming. Needless to say Gary gets both his man and his girl and manages to make the whole story convincing...