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Saturday, September 27, 1919
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The Headlines
ROCKEFELLER GIVES $20,000,000 FOR MEDICAL SCHOOLS; General Education Board to Spend Principal and Interest in Fifty Years. TO AID LARGER SCHOOLS Preference Will Probably Be Given to the Stronger Intitutions. GIFT CAME AS A SURPRISE Teaching Staffs and Laboratories to be Strengthened by the Donation. Gift Came as a Surprise. Preference to Larger Schools. ROCKEFELLER GIVES $20,000,000 MORE
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- Martin Ryle (1918)
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Slang
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General
lousysnapshotmovies
Soldiers
over the topblightyno man's landcooties
Suffragette
deeds not wordsvotes for women
Tech Check
Pop-Up Toaster, Shortwave Radio & Arc Welding.
Cost of Living (1910)
Loaf of Bread
$0.06
Gallon of Gas
$0.15
Average Home
$3,600
New Car
$950
Time Elapsed
38,968 days ago
(106 years, 278 days)