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Word: acked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this activity will rise two houses--Unit No. 1 ack of the present Gore Hall and Unit No. 2 on a triangular lot on the Boston idea of Mckinlock Hall, bordering on the river. Unit No. 1 will be in the form of a double quadrangle, architecturally much like an enlarged and reduplicated duplicated Smith Halls with a towe over the main entrance. Unit No. 1 will bear more resemblance in style the present Standish Hall. In that the courtyard will open on the river. It will be higher, over twice as large a Standish, however, and there will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coolidge Offers Bird's Eye View Of House Plan in 1929 Growth | 6/18/1929 | See Source »

...Indian from his native soil, the Red Men, in what is now New Hampshire, frequently visited the Place of the Swift Waters, and particularly one portion of those waters known as the High Place for Fish. In the Indian language, Place of the Swift Waters was Merru-asquam-ack, and High Place for Fish was Namos-kee-et. The Whites translated the former into Merrimac and the latter into Amoskeag. So when, along in 1831, a big cotton mill was built in the High Place for Fish along the Place of the Swift Waters, the cotton mill was named Amoskeag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: High Place for Fish | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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