Word: archly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accident occurred at 5.30 o'clock about 70 feet downstream from the River street bridge. The Senior crews rowing upstream, met the Tech coaching launch coming down. The fault was mutual: Senior A had failed to stop, and the launch was on the left of the arch. In trying to regain the right side, the launch hit the shell in the bow, sinking it immediately. B. F. Rice Bassett at bow jumped just in time to avoid injury...
...structure spanning the Charles. It will not sag and sway beneath the feet of business school men with their green bags, plodding wearily home from classes. All the illusion of a full moon, rising behind the Brighton Abattoir or whenever it does rise to shine on this new rainbow arch, will be shattered by cold brick and cement. It will be made, alas, to walk on: not as a Freshman promenade but as a Business School thoroughfare. The Chinese element which has argued for a pagoda-like approach, the Indian students who have hoped for pontoons, and the Westerners...
Everything is changing. Cambridge even Cambridge hits up the stride. A triumphal arch for the site of the Washington Eim? An hotel to replace Beck Hall? A silver-screen emporium for the Square? The razing of the Rotunda...
Down the Wilhelmstrasse and Unter den Linden across the Pariserplatz and through the centre arch of the Brandenburg Gate-through which, during the Imperial regime, only the Kaiser could pass-went the long company of ad mourners. The tense excitement cf the populace was severe and the involuntary surge of the crowd as it tried to prolong its last look at the majesty of the funeral pomp caused women to shriek and faint. (U. S. newspapers attributed this erroneously to "the bursting of emotion pent up beyond endurance." Berlin crowds, as is well known, are not so hysterical...
...they will not stop the plot before it is carried out, we had better form vigilance bodies and save the expense of the whole police machinery. Three times in a public place (restaurants) attacked and abused by vile language is making a rendezvous for crime, when I hear the arch-bully exclaim that no one would dare to report him to the police, but myself (Engel). Yes, I am different and I have repeatedly proven it. I do report a bully. I smash his head in defense of myself and if he is a desperado or a madman, I shall...