Word: considerable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After Mayor Thompson had left Washington, Chairman Reid's committee settled down to consider less spectacular phenomena, such as spillways, crevasses, levees and the main channel of the largest U. S. river. The planning of a national program began with requests for local relief. Representative Hull of Illinois put...
The Principals. Albert Bacon Fall, his lungs congested, despaired greatly and wished that his criminal trial might begin afresh. But it could not begin afresh until January. Wrapped in a blue velvet bathrobe, Mr. Fall gathered strength to go home to New Mexico for Christmas. He reiterated his protests of...
Rumors of a Dartmouth-Georgetown football contest on November 26 in the Stadium were dispelled yesterday when it became known that the Stadium is not available except for undergraduate activities and that the Dartmouth team has disbanded and will consider no further games.
In submitting to him every Saturday night, one winter, material for a supplementary volume in the series, I had an exceptional opportunity to observe the rare catholicity of his taste and the absolute independence of his judgment. He would not even consider anything that did not meet three tests: it...
The Chicago Public Library officials also rebuked the Mayor during the week. He had accused them of tolerating "pro-British unAmerican" books upon their shelves. They wrote: "Even taking passages quoted at their worst, we believe these books should be supplied to the library patrons that they may be acquainted...