Word: beacon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold-coasters last week wrote to a young lady attending the Erskine school on Beacon Street to invite her to the Adams House dance to be held after the Princeton game. He received a favorable reply yesterday but the letter contained the following instructions...
...that it again rivals New York's and Philadelphia's. He has given peerless performances of Ravel and Debussy, established himself as the greatest of U. S. program makers. Proud Bostonians have accepted him to the extent of making him a member of the Somerset Club, a Beacon Hill institution so exclusive that little Brahmins are usually registered for it immediately after birth...
...Industry is incurably optimistic; its beacon is hope, and change is its lifeblood. ... All through the ages ... the cry has been raised that the end of human advance is at hand. Asiatic kings had that sombre fallacy carved on monuments rescued from oblivion by the far-ranging archaeologists of our dynamic...
Holabird & Root buildings reflect the quick brilliance of Root, the patient logic of Holabird. All Chicago knows their towering railroad-straddling Daily News Building, their Palmolive Building topped by the Lindbergh beacon, their Board of Trade Building which spans La Salle Street, their swift, swirling Chrysler Building on the Fair Grounds...
...took New York and New England as its province, Standard Oil of New Jersey got New Jersey and the Middle Atlantic States and each agreed to keep out of the other's territory. Standard of New Jersey was the first to step out of bounds; in 1929 it acquired Beacon Oil Co. with retail outlets in New York and New England. Last week Standard Oil of New York (now Socony-Vacuum) seemed on the point of retaliating by crossing the Hudson River to sell Socony products in New Jersey. Ostensible reason: New Yorkers motoring into New Jersey through the Hudson...