Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...plant, for which the University is now drawing up plans. the site of the new structure, which will be on land already held by the University, has not yet been definitely decided upon, but the most probable location is that to the east of the Business School, back from the Charles River...
...those who heard him preach the methods of a new government, but also in the history of modern Europe. Even the tremendous magnitude of American intervention in the World War did not wholly overshadow the decision on the part of the German Staff to convoy so dangerous a revolutionist back to his own country from exile. It was that event that marked the beginning of a new Russia, and the subsequent rise of governments elsewhere which felt the need of coping with a remodelled situation...
...Nauseated with romanticism, he wrote a thousand words daily, part of a projected scheme of novels which would neither gild lilies nor avoid dung. Naturalism was being born. Literature should be scientifically aware of inheritance & environment. He would make his mellifluous name resound on the boulevards, the back alleys...
...photographer's showcase in Budapest. The people she worked for didn't want her to meet Goldwyn and kept her out of his way. He was about to get on a train when her manager ran up, seized the magnate's arm, urged him back to where the actress, her beautiful face expressing suspense, was standing in the drafty waiting-room. In Hollywood, Miss Banky played first with Ronald Colman, then with Rudolph Valentino, then again with Colman, always with Colman so that her "public" was shocked and even lessened when, a year and a half...