Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Outside his door newsgatherers stood ankle-deep in slushy snow, their collars turned against a winter wind zipping up the S Street hill. Moved by pity and mischief, Congressman Black of New York offered in the House a resolution to appropriate $5,000 to build the newsmen a temporary shelter...
...Eaton quoted Herbert Hoover ("The surer forces of human advancement") ; Scott ("Now is the stately column broke"); Holmes ("Build thee more stately mansions"). He discussed the "mystery and majesty of the grave" and "Death, the universal leveler." In conclusion...
...present the "P. E." has put a small army of engineers in Palestine, to build dams, erect power stations and thus filch electricity from the biblical River Jordan. Since Pinchas Rutenberg is first and foremost a Zionist, the "P. E." is keeping a careful motion picture record of the Jordan "before and after." In so far as possible the engineering staff is kept 100% Hebrew, but Arabs are used for pick and shovel work...
...Running west from Buffalo and Toledo, the Wabash goes through Indiana and Illinois, gives us an additional line into St. Louis and an entirely new line into Kansas City, Des Moines and Omaha. Then if we could also have the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville, and the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, and build a new line south from Toledo through Ohio, we would have our northern arm (Toledo to Chicago) and our southern arm (to St. Louis) nicely connected with three splendid north-and-south railroads. In the East, we should have the Reading and the Jersey Central (25% of whose stock...
...Associated Harvard Clubs, points out three significant aspects of the new House plan which, while not altogether unconsidered, will bear iteration. First, he attributes any opposition the plan has incurred to ignorance of it and its purpose. Secondly, he points to the unanimous favor of graduates and tries to build up a case of undergraduate approval. Thirdly, he admits that the details of the plan should be given the most careful attention...