Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advantages of the site of the Boston Elevated power plan for something more impressive than an ordinary dormitory have been set forth, and it has even been suggested that a lease might be obtained to build over the car yards on the other side of Boylston Street. Since the College owns the land on both sides of this street, a really imposing and beautiful entrance to the college yard could be made at this point...
...York where there are no free ferries, some bankers with $25,000,000 in cash and ample credit were last week seeking permission to build a colossal toll bridge across the narrows from Staten Island to Brooklyn. A narrows bridge is opposed by the War Department, which foresees New York Harbor clogged by its debris in case...
...value of $6,050,600 (though the U. S. spent more than $10,000,000 to recondition her). Mr. Chapman's offer itemized $6,782,000 for the Leviathan. The "American" vessels, all alike, cost the U. S. between $3,500,000 and $4,000,000 each to build. The Board valued them at $340,800 each. Mr. Chapman bid $460,000 apiece for them...
...sheep herder is Pietro Cardinal Gasparri. This priest of strong and massive build can charm a Principessa with his wit, astonish a jurist by his profundity in canon law (which he has codi-fied), or paralyze a nervous opponent by the piercing glance of his large eyes, peering from beneath abnormally heavy, Mephistophelian eyebrows (see cut). Cardinal Gasparri has been Papal Secretary of State for 14 years, twice the length of the tenure of any Prime Minister in Europe. Last week he rose to the grand climax of his career by signing a document which liberates Pope Pius XI from...
Last week, in Osakis, Minn., Tommy Gibbons gave $50,000 to build a church. He has a summer home at Osakis and felt he ought to do "something worthwhile" for the town. The name of the church that Tommy Gibbons builds will be The Church of the Immaculate Conception...