Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor E. Allison Peers of the University of Liverpool will give a public lecture in English tonight at 5 o'clock in Emerson J. Professor Peers, Visiting Professor of Modern Comparative Literature at Columbia University this year, has been at the University of Liverpool since 1920 when he succeeded the great Cervanies scholar, James Fizmaurice-Kelly, as Professor of Spanish...
...much-abused phrase, "in the interests of science", which prompts that last highball and the extra pressure on the accelerator rounding Death Curve is being employed by scientific sealots at Columbia as justification for an epochal experiment. Were it not for their undoubtedly serious intent, this trial of the savants would degenerate into more than an attempt at the world's coffee-drinking championship, for they plan to pour at least one thousand cups of coffee into three dozen otherwise normal young men and women from the university, questioning them after each cup until their ultimate capacity is reached...
...midnight in the District of Columbia jail & asylum, the middle of the night for most convicts, the beginning of a new day for one, the beginning of the 200th day since he entered jail for contempt of court and the U. S. Senate. When the hour had struck, he, No. 10,520, stepped out to the prison yard and once more became Harry Ford Sinclair, a free oilman...
Progress of the President's proposed transformation, of Washington from one of the wetter to quite the driest of cities in the land: last week John F. J. Herbert. Prohibition Administrator at Baltimore, whose territory included the District of Columbia, was transferred to Helena, Mont. His assistant, John Joseph Quinn, was suspended pending investigation of charges against him. To Baltimore was shifted Administrator Thomas Elijah Stone, top-notcher, credited with abating Detroit's huge liquor influx from Canada...
Song of Love (Columbia). An exposure of the difficulties of backstage motherhood reaches its denouement when one Buddy Gibson (David Durand) surprises both the cinematic and the actual audience by singing the theme song, "Take