Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...palace at Bucharest, King Carol of Rumania, hearing that the weather had turned foul, anxiously wirelessed Commander Gika Dimutriscu of his destroyer Regina Maria (named after his mother, Queen Marie). Aboard the Regina Maria was his son, Crown Prince Mihai, bound for Athens and the wedding of Crown Prince Paul of Greece (see p. 26), where his mother, divorced Queen Helen, was waiting...
...quarter-century eclecticism held the stage in U. S. public architecture. Wright kept off the stage. In 1905 he produced, in protest, a well-lighted administration building for the Larkin Co. in Buffalo, severely without ornament, the first office building in the U. S. to use 1) metal-bound, plate-glass doors and windows, 2) all-metal furniture, 3) air conditioning, 4) magnesite as an architectural material...
South China's great port, Canton, was furiously bombed by Japanese airmen who, however, held off last week until a train bearing 167 U. S. citizens from the interior had chuffed through Canton safely, bound for Hong Kong. Some $10,000 worth of bandages and medicinal supplies, just landed at Canton by the American Red Cross, were set afire and destroyed by the bombs...
...dismay only an incomplete and rather mutilated collection of midyear exam booklets. The rest are missing or lost among hundreds of people in the room. This state of affairs exists in part because the University Press stopped binding all midyear exams in 1934, and since then, the supply of bound exams is only kept up thanks to the efforts of the head of the Reading Room. Although the University Press continues to bind the final exams in whole and half-year courses, they have disregarded the fate of the midyear papers which, consequently, are completely lacking for the year...
Delegations ranged in number up to 32 from C.C. N.Y., with Harvard's 20 representatives in fourth place. The local chapter was given a bound copy of the Student Advocate as one of the organization's most successful units...