Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wilson went to No. 2340 S Street to die. His Cabinet scattered to their distant homes whence they had been so glamorously summoned. Mild-mannered Albert Sidney Burleson, Postmaster General (1913-21) was off to Austin, Tex., to build up & neglected law practice; behind him he left the days when he was overlord of mails, telephone and telegraph, when cables could be confiscated at his command. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy (1913-21), no longer master of Admirals, went back to the sleepy North Carolina town of Raleigh. There he shifted from cutaway to a well-worn coat, settled...
Last week J. P. Morgan became a personal giver. He gave $200,000 for the study and treatment of encephalitis letharaica, the sleeping sickness of which Mrs. Morgan died. The money will equip and support an entire floor of the $1,400,000, 12-story hospital building which the Neurological Institute will build in Manhattan in conjunction with Manhattan's growing Medical Centre at 165th Street and Broadway...
...solemnized by holy Catholic wedlock. Kitty arrives to tinker with the affections of the Prince, is divorced by Ted. At last, it seems that Ted and Jean will be able to rush off together into boundless happiness. But no-the moral ending requires that Jean and the Prince shall build anew. . . . It is entertaining fiction to read on an idle evening, despite the author's constant sermonizing on the evils of divorce. If Owen Johnson, storyteller, would oust Owen Johnson, moralist, from his works, he might resurrect the fame that was his for The Varmint, The Tennessee Shad, Stover...
...muscles. He must think in terms of huge masses, largely or wholly invisible; of gigantic forces at work; of the flow of time, measured in millions of years; of a time scale affecting the whole basis of his philosophy. Geology is a leader among those college studies, which automatically build up the imaginative faculty. This science has long been prominent in Harvard College, not only because it is interesting, but also because its students learn by long-continued practice to visualize reality. They are bound to forget details in the earths structures and processes. They cannot lose the power gained...
...United States must build a Nicaraguan canal immediately...