Word: bays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bay of the chapel St. Ansgarius in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine there is a memorial to Robert Bacon '80 and to the Harvard men who lost their lives in the World War. The memorial is intended for Harvard and is in St. John's pending the selection of a suitable site here...
...surprise, when we consider that we allow our national, state, and city governments keep the world clean and safe to live in. This tendency is shown in the stern command which was written of in this account of "the progress of learning in the College of Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay" to the effect that "none shall, under any pretence whatsoever, frequent the company and society of such men as lead an unfit and dissolute life...
...fault, the Funday Fault, which runs along the ocean floor about 75 miles out. A slipping along this fault may be expected every century at least, said Professor Mather, "This might reach an intensity of 8, sufficient to injure buildings, particularly those in filled land such as the Back Bay. Any such quake, however, would probably not be as serious as the one in San Francisco, since there the fault runs near the city...
Patrolman Prior, coming to Murphy's aid, was jostled by the crowd, and his hat knocked off, Seeing all the signs of a riot in this act, Prior drew his gun, and holding the students at bay, backed to the signal box on the square, and turned in a call for assistance...
Shortly afterwards, Leys and Plumer returned to Seattle, where they separated. The former became a seaman on the "Bay State" bound for Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai, and Hongkong. It was at the last port that he went ashore, lured by the prospect of work because of the shipping strike which had just set in and which later became a serious boycott. Leys worked with coolies, attained the dignity of winch-driver, and later made out to the ships daily to cargo with his gang of riff-raff and strike-breakers, returning at night under a pelter of stones from the strikers...