Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...radio from Noorvik, on the west coast, the nearest transmitting station to Wainwright. Word will be carried over the intervening 400 miles by a chain of giant bonfires every fifteen miles, each tended by a team of Eskimos who will light the fire when they see the preceding beacon, and run on between stations to make sure the signal is not missed. In no other way could the news be transmitted in so short a time, the journey ordinarily taking several weeks. Business men of Nome are backing the explorer and are raising $5,000, besides providing volunteer assistance...
...great plan is beginning to be felt. Arrived in Boston and showed my characteristic contempt for the established order in a well-spent evening scratching matches on all the front doors along Beacon Street. Most satisfactory...
...country, showing not only that the magnificent truth about the cherry tree was a sagacious bit of publicity which led directly to the Presidency, but that his supplementary statement that "he could not tell a lie" was even more carefully calculated to preserve his name to perpetuity. Now a beacon-light of politics is shattered when we learn that Washington never said "avoid entangling alliances". True, no less an authority than Jefferson did say it, but the effect is no longer the same. It is well known that Jefferson was a Democrat, so of course he was prejudiced...
...banquet of the Yale Alumni of Boston at the City Club Wednesday evening it was announced to the 300 graduates present that the organization intends to open a Yale clubhouse in the recently purchased buildings at 3 and 10 Derne St., Beacon Hill...
Sunday, January 7.--The Reverend Samuel A. Eliot, D.D., American Unitarian Society, 25 Beacon St., Boston...