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Word: webber (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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That Grace Knight Babson, wife of financial prognosticator Roger Ward Babson, conducts a business school, Webber College, for young lady heiresses at Babson Park, Fla., is not news. That for the first time the school will operate for nine months, spending the Fall and Spring terms in Boston with classrooms in the gaudy Hotel Lenox, is news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Timocrats | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...school the millionheiresses will balance books, study stock-picking, learn to discriminate between a swindle and a sure thing. But, "As it is not the object of Webber College to fit women for secretarial positions, it does not include any form of shorthand writing in its curriculum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Timocrats | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

When only smoking embers remained on the hillsides 130 homes were destroyed, more than million-dollar damage was done. The dwellings of wealthy Ralston White, Lucian Marsh, Charles Coles, Mrs. Mary Webber Fisk, German Consul Kurt Zeigler, had been devoured. And as fire in a forest will sometimes lay bare a landmark half-forgotten, one ash-heap in Mill Valley stood out in despatches with historical significance. It was the home of Col. Andrew Summers Rowan, U. S. A. retired, onetime world hero, the man who "carried the message to Garcia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: In Mill Valley | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...qualified for semifinals. First heat--won by Collier (Brown); second, Furth (N.Y.U.); third, Smith (Stanford); fourth, Clark (Cornell). Time--14 4-5. Second heat--won by McCoy (Penn); second, Nichols (Stanford); third, Devoe (Yale); fourth, Young (Cornell). Time--15 1-5 sec. Third heat--won by Edmonds (Stanford); second, Webber (Southern California); third, Putnam (Dartmouth); fourth, Stollwerck (Colgate). Time--15 1-10 sec. Heat for fourth men (one to qualify for semifinals). Won by Stollwerek (Colgate). Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE HARVARD TRACKMEN SURVIVE I. C. 4A. TESTS | 6/1/1929 | See Source »

Twenty four courts have already gotten their assignments. Docket number 25 is the Austin Club (Webber, Dexter) versus the Chafee Club (Brennan, Lansden). Meeting at Austin Hall East with K. D. McCracken 3L as chief justice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORE FIRST YEAR CLUBS TO RECEIVE DATA TODAY | 1/9/1929 | See Source »

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