Word: england
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University Club is to be the scene for the annual banquet of the New England Association of Phillips Exeter Academy Alumni this evening at 6.30 o'clock. Movies of the Harvard-Yale game of this year are to be shown; E. L. Casey '17, Harvard backfield coach, will be on hand to explain the Crimson plays, and Charles Comer-ford, who coached the Yale ends this year, is to speak about the Eli plays...
...course, that our professors are bothered with comparatively little organization or red tape, as compared with yours. In the University of Liverpool, for instance, there are only 1800 students. The main reason for this is that there are not anywhere near as many people in Spain or in England who are desirous of a college education as there are in America. Then too, in Spain the A. B. degree means almost nothing, for the Universities there take boys at the age of 14 or 15, and the course given is more like that of a super high-school rather than...
...approval to U. S. attempts at oil rationalization. But the restriction program, in its nation-wide aspect at least, fell through, and in August Sir Henri suddenly shocked U. S. oilmen, particularly the Standard Oil Company of New York, with an invasion of Socony's own territory. Throughout New England, and in and around New York, appeared filling stations selling Shell gasoline. Marketed by Shell Union Oil Corp., which, although a Royal-Dutch-Shell subsidiary, is third largest U. S. oil producer, Shell Gasoline represented foreign competition in a particularly acute form. Most of the Shell Gasoline has been imported...
...collaboration with Professor A. N. Whitehead, now of Harvard, under whom he studied mathematics at Cambridge University, England, Russell wrote the "Principia Mathematics", a work advancing the proposition that logic and mathematics, can be united into a single science...
Second, every civilized country is engaged in a struggle to curb the drink evil. Some are trying one method and some another. Some, like England, are restricting more and more the hours and reducing the number of places in which liquor may be sold. Others are placing heavy taxes on distilled liquor in order to make it too expensive for most people. Others are prohibiting the selling of liquor except in Government dispensaries. We, in this country, have tried all of these and are now engaged in an attempt to limit the sale of liquor to medicinal and sacramental purposes...