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...form of application remains much the same as in former years. Groups of 6 or 12 couples comprise a box. All groups must elect a chairman and send applications to the Box Chairman, at 9 Bow Street, on or before February 15. Applications must be typewritten and should contain the names of the members of the box and their guests, arranged in alphabetical order but with the chairman's heading the list...
...dictionary of the future will contain the above entry, if the popular imagination is captured by the winning word in the $200 contest which has been conducted recently by Delcevare King '95 for an epithet of bitter opprobrium applicable to a lawless drinker. From among over 25,000 words submitted by 6234 people, the winning term was chosen, according to the announcement of the award made last night by the judges...
...finished, New Yorkers felt that the climax of big buildings had been reached. But now the Parlex Holding Corporation proposes to outdo it with a mammoth structure at Fourth Avenue and 33rd Street. An entire block, 425 x 197 feet, will be occupied, the new structure when finished will contain 1,458,170 square feet of rental area-about a quarter of a million more than the Equitable Building-and will have 31 stories. The total cost is estimated at between $18,000,000 and $20,000,000. Construction will start this Spring...
...upon the publication tomorrow evening of President Lowell's annual report to the overseers, which is expected to deal with this same question, the debate tomorrow night will be of particularly timely interest. Those who speak will have the opportunity of discussing whatever recommendations the President's report may contain...
...planned that the finished Cathedral will have in the front a rose window above which will run a gallery of niches, to contain statues, extending entirely across the façade after the manner of the Gallery of Kings in Rheims Cathedral...