Word: years
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...21?Close of Pope Pius XI's jubilee year in honor of his 50th anniversary as a priest...
...Last year when Ruggiero played publicly for the first time in San Francisco, all who heard him marveled. Early in the fall he played the Mendelssohn Concerto with the Manhattan Symphony (TIME, Oct. 28). Critics and laymen alike forgot that they had gathered for the debut concert of Conductor Henry Hadley's orchestra, spoke only of Ricci. Next day he was a celebrity. The customary human interest stories followed?"Ruggiero is a real boy despite his genius . . . likes history, lemon pie, strawberries . . . sleeps twelve hours a night, from seven until seven...
Sold: Seventy-nine yearling trotters, year's product of the famed Walnut Hall Breeding Farm of Lexington, Ky., for $96,350. Steel. To save the skilled clubmakers of Scotland from competing with the cheap, excellent products of U. S. factories, the Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews has long refused to let anyone use steel-shafted clubs in British golf tournaments. Last week the Royal & Ancient Club met, announced that steel shafts would be all right. Their reason: scarcity of good hickory...
Headmaster Mather Almon ("Bott") Abott of Lawrenceville School, N ]., was given a trip to Europe and a silver service to signalize the tenth year of his service at the school...
...probably groping over the ice packs off Cape North, Siberia, last week. Flyer Eielson knows the Arctic as well as the palms of his slim, steady hands, off one of which (the left) the Arctic cold bit a finger one day when his plane was forced down. For several years he piloted Capt. Sir George Hubert Wilkins, explorer, over icy wildernesses. Their greatest exploit, as great a piece of avigation as ever was done, was flying from Point Barrow, Alaska, over converging meridians of longitude and across shifting uncharted lines of magnetic force, to Spitsbergen (TIME, April 30, 1928). Last...