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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interesting to note that in the new residential "House" which is to be built, Harvard is returning to this old English college plan; but there is one feature of Dunster's building that we unfortunately cannot restore; the buttery, where College beer was dispensed, and about whose friendly "hatch" or Dutch door the students gathered to enjoy a social mug at "morning bever" and "afternoon bever", possibly between-times as well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First President of Harvard Gives College Longevity | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

...launches are to be of the same type, but smaller, being 20 feet long with 60 horsepower motors. The "Red Top," as the first was named, was 27 feet long and had a 100 horse-power engine. The Greenport launches are built especially for crew coaching. They have the advantage, Coach Brown said, of leaving a very small wake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO LAUNCHES ORDERED FOR THE CRIMSON ROWING FLEET | 1/10/1929 | See Source »

...Where Spaniards looked for gold and life-everlasting and pirates later lolled at ease amid hidden booty, U. S. tycoons of today have built winter mansions and game preserves. The Penney estate at Belle Isle, though it views Miami's skyscrapers across Biscayne Bay, is as secluded as any nest that a pirate ever made for himself on Bimimi or the Dry Tortugas. The late Henry M. Flagler, founder of Florida's perpetual youth, was not the first modern tycoon to visit the Southeast and his railroad and hotels meant more to the commonalty than to Mr. Flagler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: On the Map | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...support of Boy King Mihai-or as Queen Marie calls him "Our Tender and Lovely Hope" (TIME, Nov. 26). Appropriately enough last week, King Mihai ignored his Parliament and played with trains-real trains. One locomotive with which he played was the first full-sized freight engine to be built entirely in Rumania. On the day after Parliament opened His Majesty was lifted into the cab of the freight monster-with Queen Marie watchfully present-and actually clutched and tugged at the throttle with sufficient force to open it and spin the giant driving wheels. Precocious and forthright, King Mihai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Speech from the Throne | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

Last month he interrupted his series of spectacular purchases and appeared before the country in a new role. A machine which may be of epochal importance in newspaper publishing, by which type can be set by telegraph, was built, tested, proved successful. Gannett was the man who had backed the invention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Gannett's Eagle | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

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