Word: beacon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...costs $1.25 for a "trial membership". The theatre is at 36 Joy Street, where one enters through a bookshop. During quiet moments of the play you can hear the footsteps and words of people walking down muddy Beacon Hill. Probably it is a synthetic Bohemia, but it will...
...present Court buildings in East Cambridge, or as it was then known at Lechmere's Point and crossing on the narrow causeway over what was then the wide tidal estuary of Miller's river made their way to Union Square, Somerville, whence they proceeded by what is now Beacon Street, Somerville, reached Massachusetts Avenue or Menotomy Road, by Beech Street proceeded to Arlington Centre then known as the Village of Menotomy. The return of the British was over the same route. The troops which were able to cross Charles River at the foot of what is now Boylston Street owing...
Clevelanders last week learned why the hawk fed leisurely outside the Van Sweringen windows. Atop the 54-story tower building is a huge beacon. Birds migrating at night are blinded by the glare, dash against the building, drop broken-bodied to the balcony projection...
...contributed as much to radio as any man now alive, has invented yet another radio device, a machine for shooting a radio beam at whatever point on earth he pleases. His previous inventions have been the invaluable radio compass, the radio fog signal system, the mobile radio beacon to protect ships in fog, the decremeter which measures wave lengths and dampens radio oscillations, the Kolster radio receiving set. He created the Bureau of Standard's radio section and is its chief. He is chief research engineer of the Federal Telegraph Co. and its allied companies...
Having gathered its men the procession broke up in the splurge in front of the Lampoon building, and scrambling into walting busses and private vehicles of one sort and another, allowed self to be transported to the corner Fairfield and Beacon streets...