Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cooke went among the Buffalonians and told them the University ought to be endowed. Some 24,000 citizens gave $5,177,000. This year Mr. Cooke went forth again and when his drive ended last week, some 30,000 contributors had given, despite a crushing stockmarket. more than...
...Last week three attempts were made to lay down empirical formulas for the conduct of U. S. school children, pedagogs, undergraduates...
...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news...
Leopold Stokowski, proud conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, last week turned upon his applauding audience and said: "This strange beating together of hands has no meaning. To me it is very disturbing. We try to make sounds like music, and then in between comes this strange sound that you make. I am not criticizing you. I am criticizing a custom. I don't know where it originated, but probably back in some dark forest in medieval days." Delighted, the audience clapped loudly...
John Coolidge, dutiful newlywed clerk of the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R., read in the road's monthly house organ Along the Line that employes were invited to suggest names for a new Boston-New York flier the road was planning. Newlywed Coolidge's suggestions were last week published by the road's publicity staff as follows: Silver Shaft, Twilighter, Dusky Flier, Evening Star, Skipper, Shadowtown Special, Yankee Clipper, Seagull, Pioneer, Ace, Sea Flier, Sea Slipper, Blackhawk, Kingfleet...