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Word: answer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This new drive along the Boston side which is thus seen to be of primary importance for traffic to Cambridge and towns to the north and west of Cambridge, is the feature most opposed by Beacon St. organizations who claim that the drive would ruin the park. The answer to this objection is that no horns would be blown because there would be no cross streets and no pedestrians, and that motor cars on a smooth park road make little noise. The drive would be crossed by footbridges so that pedestrians would not be endangered. It seems unreasonable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Killam Discusses Proposals to Alter Charles River and Basin | 3/14/1929 | See Source »

...ould you zay tzrow eet eenzo low tzear. Yeah, just like that. Throw it into low gear, he meant. What do they get guys like that for? The class horses him all the time. You know Al? He's on pro, but he never comes to class, I just answer Here for him and Nap doesn't know the difference...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: THE CRIME | 3/12/1929 | See Source »

...newspapers cabled to President Machado a resumé of Octavio Seigle's charges, which included assassinations with sawed-off shotguns and racketeering in lotteries conducted by the President himself. An answer was received from Ricardo Herrera, the President's secretary: "Honorable President Machado grants no importance to these matters which tend to create unjustified alarm while absolute peace and faith in its government and President exist in all the nation. . . As to the absolute untruthfulness of this information, the President would prefer that you apply for an opinion to the American embassy, or to any other member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Assassins! Sharks! | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Alexander. When Julius Csesar made his famed remark about preferring to be first in a little Iberian village rather than second in Rome, he of course left the obvious answer that to be first in Rome was the really desirable position. In the case of Banker James Strange Alexander, the little Iberian village was Tarrytown, N. Y., where his parents had settled after their arrival from Scotland. And had Banker Alexander remained in Tarrytown he would undoubtedly have become its first banker, as even at the age of 20 he was well along the road to advancement in a Tarrytown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Banks Bigger | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Apart from the waste of time incident upon the crowded conditions and the impossibility of any extra time at the end of the hour in which the instructor may answer questions, it is apparent that with the considerable increase in registration that will accompany the inauguration of the House Plan next year the physical limits of the present buildings will have been reached. While there remains a small margin of expansion in the fact that the rooms are not always used up to their full capacity, to take advantage of this small leeway would prove very difficult and would involve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GROWING PAINS | 3/7/1929 | See Source »

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