Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going to pick out the worst day to start for America. . . . Moreover the weather will determine whether we travel 4,000 miles or 6,000 miles. . . . Naturally I would like best to choose the northern route which is the shortest. . . . From the moment we reach the European coast we will need from 45 to 80 hours for the actual crossing. . . . After the fortieth hour don't worry if you do not hear from us for a long time...
Paint. Nine paint manufacturers on the Pacific Coast have agreed to merge. They are at Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles. E. H. Rollins & Sons of San Francisco are the financiers...
Under the heading "Innocents Abroad" the Cornell Daily Sun recently printed the statement appearing above. This is to be corrected in the following points. The appearance of the "Gold Coast" dormitories has not changed since passing from the jurisdiction of the private owners. Never straggling or ugly these dormitories are to be noticed for their substantial construction and orderly arrangement. Above the ordinary height of college dormitories, and admirably designed they are in dignified harmony with their urban surroundings...
...name "Gold Coast" was applied to these buildings long before there was such a profession as bootlegging and arose from the fact that the rents excluded all but wealthy tenants.. Unwilling to nourish this possibility for distinction by wealth, the College purchased all the "Gold Coast" dormitories and has placed the price of rooms on a level with the other dormitory accommodations. Though located in a part of Cambridge that is less than a mile in width, no part of the "Gold Coast" is nearer than three quarters of a mile to the Somerville line...
...Gold Coast" which used to be composed of a row of luxuriously equipped, privately owned Harvard dormitories, occupied by students who had nothing to worry about in the payment of their bills, has now become a straggling group of ugly buildings. The name "Gold Coast" was derived from the profits of the bootlegging industry which was, especially in this territory, on the border line between Cambridge and Somerville, so prosperous...