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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were few honors in his profession that Professor Pray had not attained at one stage or another of his career. The list of institutes and societies of which he was an active member is world-wide in its scope and includes as perhaps his greatest distinction the American Academy in Rome, of which he was for five years trustee and executive member. Professor Pray also took a prominent part in the development of the science of city planning that has grown to such importance during recent years...
Observers noticed that the Swopian advertisement was published five columns wide in the World's contemporaries, the Times and Herald Tribune, but only four columns wide in the no longer Swopian World...
...This book is intended for average minds equally remote from genius which knows no obstacles, or from stupidity to which everything is an obstacle," says the author. How well he has gauged his readers is already demonstrated by the large sale and wide popularity of the book...
Melville Elijah Stone was the son of a Methodist minister. At the age of nine he learned to set type. ... At 28, he organized a company to publish the Chicago Daily News as a penny newspaper. Pennies were not then in wide circulation in Chicago, so Publisher Stone had several barrels of them shipped from the Philadelphia mint. He also persuaded merchants to sell some of their goods at penny-stimulating prices...
...from satisfactory at the present," Mr. Wickersham continued. "Problems of a most embarrassing nature are constantly arising, and sometimes constitute serious menaces to the legal harmony of government. Hitherto there has been no single system of law whereby countries can judge their cases. Custom and a wide variety of precedents have been practically the only criteria for the just determination of conduct. Obviously conflict was the inevitable result of such contradictory standards...