Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dramatic Club; who was to have taken one of the leading parts will be unable to do so because of illness. The feminine parts are taken by women who have appeared in plays of the Dramatic Club and organizations in Boston, among whom are Naroissa Varney. Patricia Stevenson, Mary Crandon, and Rachael Allen...
...acting in Hotbed is enough to make it somewhat exciting. William Ingersoll is the bad goodman, Alison Bradshaw his daughter, and Richard Stevenson the assistant professor detected in a process of seduction...
...controlled about 67%. British plantations in the East, principally in Malaya, produced in that year 300,000 tons. Dutch plantations, in Java and the East Indies, produced only 95,000 tons. Prices were low. In an attempt to boost prices, establish a monopoly, Great Britain undertook, by the Stevenson Restriction Act, to regulate exports from Malaya. The idea was to fix the price of crude rubber at between 30 and 40? a pound...
...Gait, Ontario, and hauds a place in the latest edition o' Wabster's International Dictionary, some 90 year after his daith, was a "gaping Ayrshire yokel," tae. An' Dr. McCosh, President o' Princeton College, Princeton, N. J., was anither. An' sae was Lord Stevenson, famed controller o' rubber, (apologies tae TIME here) who made Herbert Hoover sae jumpy two or three year sin' that some o' oor American papers said that Herbert got his feegurs sae badly jumle't that he made statements showin' that the British, through Stevenson...
...Lord Stevenson was a bad yin. I see ye dinna owerleuk him in yer last issue. He was anither o' thae Ayrshire Yokels. He gaed tae the same schule as I did masel'. I wunner what Jix was thinkin' o' himsel', addressin' the like...