Word: 155th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...verified that all pilots had received orders not to fly lower than 500 feet. South Americans especially regretted that the Colombian tragedy occurred on the 155th anniversary of the birth of their great hero, Simon Bolivar...
...Dutch and English who settled the bottom tip of Manhattan Island were in no hurry. Their tiny lanes rambled and twisted between their farms and homes. In 1807 New York City planners laid out a grid of narrow crosstown and wider up & downtown streets from 14th to 155th. The crosstown streets were placed at close intervals because it was thought that much of the town's up & downtown traffic would be borne by the Hudson River on the west, the East River on the east. The grid street plan worked very well for a century. Old photographs of Manhattan...
...confused with the National Academy of Design is the American Academy of Arts & Letters, an assemblage of unofficial Immortals who maintain a gallery and clubroom in Manhattan's frozen north, at No. 633 West 155th St. Four weeks ago the U. S. Immortals assembled to honor one of their most distinguished members, 72-year-old Gari Melchers. On the 50th anniversary of his first exhibited painting, "The Letter," shown in the Paris Salon of 1882, they held a dinner, presented him with a gold medal and turned over their gallery to a memorial exhibition of his work. Last week...
...terror, was at last pent up to die with her soldier lover. There were no animals at all, the supers were ludicrously spindly-shanked and awkward, the scenery an arrangement of posts and draperies which seemed often to confuse the performers. Nonetheless many a Manhattanite had journeyed tediously to 155th Street to see the second U. S. operatic performance of lissome, dark Helen Gahagan, Belasco actress (Tonight or Never) turned singer. New Jersey-born, Brooklyn-raised, Actress Gahagan has been called by Colyumist Heywood Broun "ten of the twelve most beautiful women on the American stage." She made her operatic...
Rhymer gained a minute at West Point but in Haverstraw Bay, Woodworth caught him. When he passed the finish line at 155th Street, his average time for the distance was 41.9 m. p. h., course record for outboards. Second in his class, fifth in the actual finish was Jonah Stevens, lucky for once. Three other racers broke last year's time for the race...