Word: around
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...look extremely dark when her impetuous young brother, an embryonic lawyer, messes things up worse by objecting to the methods of her counsel. From this point on the story resolves itself into a series of detective masterpieces manoeuvered by this young brother which gradually bring the doubtful jury around from a position of cold hostility to warm and enthusiastic support. It is in this power to away the feelings of the audience from one side to the other that the author displays his true dramatic mastery...
...jury will meet in Cambridge on January 31 to judge the material and choose the winners of the awards. The winners will be announced at a dinner in their honor to be held around the first of March at the Harvard Business School...
Similarly, the opposite bank of the Charles may lie fallow until the growth around it has taken shape, when new uses will undoubtedly arise for it. That part of it back from the river, behind Baker Library, might, however, be put to immediate as a site for the power plant which must be erected to supply Harvard with heat and light. Already the Weeks Bridge carries the pipes for the service of the Business School. The same ducts might be employed for the passage of conduits from a main plant located in Alliston. Other plots of University-owned ground available...
Robert Woods Bliss, socially elect "career man" and U. S. Ambassador to Argentina, was able to set out last week on a vacation which he had been forced to abandon temporarily when President-Elect Herbert Hoover decided to junket around South America (TIME, Nov. 26 et seq.). Originally Mr. Bliss planned to join Mrs. Bliss in Europe; but she has now crossed the Atlantic and the U. S. to California. Therefore, as Ambassador Bliss left Buenos Aires, last week, he headed not for Paris but for San Francisco...
Dense white fog settled around the chill towers and spires of Chartres, billowed over hoary ramparts, poured down into the valley. Approaching, speeding up the valley road into the fog, came a silent, richly glinting limousine, the car of M. Joseph Caillaux, famed "Statesman with Nine Lives...