Word: across
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed the Box bill to prevent naturalized Canadians and Mexicans from commuting to work daily across the U. S. borders...
Highway traffic, like many another thing, follows the cheapest route. Operators of the New Orleans-Pontchartrain toll bridge have made this unhappy discovery. The great span was born under politics, and politics in the form of free state ferries across the lake, caused its financial demise. This month, after a year's profitless operation, it went quietly into bankruptcy, unable to meet interest charges on its $5,500,000 construction cost...
...York where there are no free ferries, some bankers with $25,000,000 in cash and ample credit were last week seeking permission to build a colossal toll bridge across the narrows from Staten Island to Brooklyn. A narrows bridge is opposed by the War Department, which foresees New York Harbor clogged by its debris in case...
...things which have dominated him have been evident in all of his family. Since the colonial days when they captained ships out of Boston and Salem harbors, his maternal ancestors, the Crowninshields, were among the most famous of New England seafarers. Only last year Mr. Adams himself sailed across the Atlantic in the Spanish race. Among his paternal forebears, there have been many distinguished public men, two of whom were presidents of the United States. And recently it was divulged that President Cleveland extended an invitation to his father, for the very post which the son is now to fill...
...well during the cross-country and winter seasons and are considered capable of coping with the other Cornell threats, Eldridge and Levering. Should Benson, however, withdraw from the mile, a clean sweep for the Crimson runners is quite likely. Under such circumstances, the Cornell champion might well lead Reid across the finish line, but even this upset would not alter the point total to any great degree. Leslie Flaksman '29, who finished a short distance behind Reid in the two mile last year, may safely be counted on for third position...