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Newsprint. The pre-war price of newsprint in Great Britain was ?11 55 a ton. Immediately after war began it jumped to ?17. Last week, at ?21 108 ($86), newsprint's price had almost doubled (while in the U. S. newsprint still sold for $50). A further rise to...
Treasurer Hooper estimates that the wealth of Harvard University has doubled once in every twenty years since its foundation. (May 2, 1890)
Five minutes early for the Chekhov lecture, Vag got a choice seat on the floor with his knees doubled up under him. He thought more about Buddha than "The Cherry Orchard" that night. Then he pulled in at a quarter before the hour to hear the one-man debate on...
Exports. Since World War II began, U. S. exports to Scandinavia and Finland have rocketed 81%, for January-February of this year hit a total of well over $30,000,000. For 1939 biggest item of U. S. sales was automobiles and accessories worth $22,210,000. To Scandinavia went...
"Uncle" is the undergraduate monicker for Haverford presidents. Present uncle is genial, cricket-playing William Wistar ("Uncle Billy") Comfort, highbrowed classicist and devout Quaker, who can, with equal facility, trace a word to its Sanskrit root and a piece of undergraduate mischief to its only begetter. Haverford graduate (1894) and...