Word: across
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once again Harvard news and Harvard music will be sent across the space which separates Commander Byrd's expedition from the United States, according to the following despatch received by the CRIMSON late last evening...
...Runner: "Well, it just happens they aren't there when we get across...
...Atlantic will experiment with an analogous device to pick up and despatch mail to shore. On a new platform above the poop deck a sack of mail will be laid. A plane with a steel ball hanging by a rope will pass over the ship, dragging the ball across the platform. The ball will engage the sack, which the plane will draw into its fuselage, as she flies to land...
...audience?" This book seeks to prove that, with expert manipulation, they can. Mr. Wells's audience would first be shown a primeval cave, views of the globe. North America, the Manhattan skyline, a skyscraper, then a view of one of the sky-scraper's windows, into it, across the room, to a map, where, with the aid of a pointer outlining Kingdom of Clavery and Republic of Agravia, two fictitious Balkan states, the story begins. It seems there is a certain precious metal called calcomite. The English control all the calcomite mines except those in Agravia...
...August day in California when Herbert Hoover accepted the Republican presidential nomination, he proposed "an organized, searching investigation" of Prohibition. That promise ferried him safely across the campaign to election. Congress thought of his proposal as primarily a Prohibition survey when, last winter, it appropriated $250,000 for the expenses...