Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Playing at 3.30 o'clock, the Freshman tennis team will try to prove to M.I.T. that they have completely recovered from the 6-3 drubbing which Andover dealt them Wednesday. Jimmy Fuld, number one man, will be striving once again to build up a string of triumphs which will compare with the one snapped so unexpectedly by Foreman of Andover last Wednesday...
...Palm Beach needed a place to risk its money. Bradley's celebrated Beach Club was opened in 1898. In its 36 years, rare is the U. S. Big Name which has not applied for a guest card. The Beach Club is a large homey collection of white frame buildings on Lake Worth, not far from the yellow railway station where many of its visitors put their private cars on sidings. It is chartered to operate as a private organization to run a buffet "and such games of amusement as the managers and members may from time to time agree...
...also to a psychology which tends to discourage investment in improvements and betterments. It is a strange but significant fact that we are living in an age when any reputable citizen can borrow money with which to buy an automobile but cannot borrow money with which to buy or build a home...
Last week in a big, bright room on the eighth floor of its Chicago administration building was held a corporation's annual meeting for which the build-up had been long & loud. The horrid-sounding charges which Joseph I. Zook, as head of a self-appointed stockholders protective "association," had been hurling at Montgomery Ward's management insured good attendance. Even the Armour brothers, Philip and Lester, dropped in to pick up a few pointers from Ward's quick-witted President-Chairman Sewell Lee Avery...
Glenn Martin was fiddling with bicycles at home in Santa Ana, Calif, in 1903 when the Wright brothers made historic news at Kitty Hawk. By 1907 he was able to build himself a glider and a year later he was the third man in the world to fly a heavier-than-air craft of his own devising. To laymen the name of Glenn L. Martin has today receded into the dim anonymity of military aviation, but in his youth Glenn Martin was his own able pressagent. He barnstormed with a lady parachute jumper who perched in pink tights...