Word: boston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to the reports in Boston papers, Ottawa was the center of yesterday's earthquake instead of the middle of the ocean, Dr. L. Don Leet, head of the Harvard seismograph station reported last night. Previously Dr. Leet had hazarded the guess that the center of the quake was in the ocean, but recent reports from other stations confirmed the fact that the worst tremors were somewhere in the vicinity of Ottawa...
...Leet said that he first learned of the earthquake when a Boston paper called him up at breakfast and informed him that there had been a series of tremors which had shaken up most of greater Boston. Leet was besieged by calls from New England residents and from newspapers, but he admitted that the most he could do was to "case a few troubled breasts," since his own station was not functioning...
...know he wasn't going to come back when he was reading the morning papers that day," declared a ward mate of Brill's, who has requested that his name be withheld. "He kept muttering 'He shouldn't be allowed in Boston,' after he had seen a notice that J. P. Marquand was to appear at the Book Fair of the Boston Herald-Traveler...
...call to the Traveler Book Fair office revealed that a "red haired Harvard" had called on Mr. Marquand and had said he would wait when he was told that the author would not be in Boston until Tuesday. It was not revealed where he was waiting...
Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters last night at exercises marking the close of Boston University Theological School's one hundredth year. The ceremony took place in Trinity Church...