Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the many degrees how held by President Lowell are the degrees of LL.D. from several American universities, and Ph.D. from Frederich Willrelm University, Berlin, Strasbourg, McGill, Cambridge, and Victoria University of Manchester...
...three o'clock in the afternoon, of Friday, April 19, began the greatest endurance test since Dempsey beat Carpentiers. Two strong and husky entrants from that respected school across the Common, were to sit in opposite windows of a music store on Holyoke St., and play victoria records continuously until one or the other should fall asleep or faint of fatigue. To the winner the proprietor of the shop promised to award a handsome prize of twenty-five dollars, and to the loser a generous prize of ten dollars...
...education. Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan sent representatives. So did Australia and New Zealand. No U. S. educators were officially present, although two were invited from the Adult Education Association; but their absence in no way diminished the grand manner or the importance of the meeting last week in Victoria and Vancouver of the Canadian National Council of Education...
...Best known Canadian institutions are the Universities - Toronto, New Brunswick, Manitoba, Ottawa, McGill, Queen's, Trinity, Victoria, Laval, Dalhousie. † Approximately 200 U. S. magazines and 30 newspapers are sold regularly in Canada. For U. S. magazines Canada spends some $15,000,000 yearly; for British magazines, some...
...prime Cavedweller, for example, is Miss Mable Thorp Boardman, Secretary of the American Red Cross, whom (the saying goes) Edward of Wales once mistook for his royal mother. Another Cavedweller is Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, who drives about in a victoria, wears plumed hats, prefers foreigners, particularly Italians. A third Cavedweller is Mrs. Richard H. Townsend possessed of a Pennsylvania R. R. fortune. She has a monster Queen Anne house at Massachusetts & Florida Avenues. She bought for her daughter, Mrs. B. Sumner Welles (Senator Gerry's onetime wife) a $600,000 Russian pearl necklace...