Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offer to build a new baseball cage was made two and a half years ago, in May, 1923. The donor has desired to remain anonymous. A year ago last spring plans were made to build the cage at the western end of the old tennis courts, near the stables. Lines were drawn there and posts erected...
...less puerile attitude toward football which those who have the well-being of football as a college sport closest at heart are striving to foster. In becoming the greatest spectacle in American life, football has concerned itself too much with the interest of the spectators. Colossal stadiums have been build, rotogravure sections filled with pictures of individual players. The "Big Three", as they are termed, constituted the cradle of intercollegiate football. If, in this emergency, they choose, in the interests of the colleges themselves, to lead the way back to sanity, they may save the future of intercollegiate football...
Announcement came out of England that the shipbuilding firm of William Denny & Brothers, of Dumbarton, Scotland, was to build an experimental ship whose propulsive steam would be retained in water-tube boilers capable of sustaining a pressure of 550 Ibs. to the square inch - more than twice the steam pressure of any steam installation used aboard ship today. This announcement, though it followed close upon the heels of a paper read by a famed engineer before the British Institution of Naval Engineering suggesting that steam turbines could be developed with pressures hitherto undreamed of, might have attracted little notice...
...school prepares you for the University, so the University offers you priceless opportunities to lay the foundations upon which in later life you will build your castles," said the Honorable Joseph C. Grew '02, Under Secretary of State, in an address Saturday evening at an informal meeting of the Class of 1929 in the Union. He continued...
...Howard Konkle, was stricken with lockjaw. "If he lives," prayed Realtor Konkle, "I will work for the rest of my life to make money for the missionaries." The youth survived.* Last week his father announced that he will build a 5,500-room hotel which will tower 800† feet above Manhattan's street level. Ten % of the profits derived from this remarkable edifice will go to missionary work...