Word: annual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presents have been prepared for the young guests. Entertainments of a more serious nature will be offered at Phillips Brooks House during the vacation for the benefit of students of the University who find it impossible to go home for the holidays. Included among these will be the annual Christmas night reception...
...they knew it was the work of William (Pigiron) Piggott, president of the company, bitter and active campaigner against liquor.* Mr. Piggott by the time of his death (TIME, July 29) had built up his Pacific Coast Steel Co. and its subsidiary, Southern California Iron & Steel Co., to an annual capacity of 380,000 tons-40,000 more than Columbia Steel, only complete steel unit west of the Rockies, managed then by San Francisco's powerful Fleishhacker-SIoss interests...
...Edison, four servants, a dozen laboratory assistants and five carloads of laboratory gear & raw materials, all rolled southward last week from New Jersey toward Fort Myers, Fla. Through the press rolled headlines. For Inventor Edison, having celebrated the golden jubilee of his electric light bulb, had signalized his annual winter hegira by an announcement that sounded fraught with gold...
When Nikolai Sokoloff conducts his Cleveland Orchestra in its annual Manhattan concert, he usually attracts attention by performing unusual music. In last week's concert Conductor Sokoloff seemed more than ever an apostle of the curious. Following Chabrier's Marche Joyenuse, he presented d'Indy's seldom-heard Jour d'Eté la Montagne, then three Manhattan premières-First Airphonic Suite for RCA Theremin* and Orchestra by Russian Joseph Schillinger; Overture to a Don Quixote by Jean Rivier, 33-year-old Parisian; and New Year's Eve in New York by Werner...
...wonders about the habits of U. S. birds and animals it asks the Bureau of Biological Survey* to report. Chief of the Bureau is tall, spare Paul G. Redington, who spends his time traveling through the wild gamelands of the U. S. and Alaska. Last week at the 16th annual American Game Conference in Manhattan, Chief Redington told some 200 game commissioners and sportsmen about an experiment the Bureau had made to determine how far migratory wild birds fly each season. First, 100,000 birds were captured and numerically leg-banded. During the subsequent seasons 15,000 of these were...