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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Perhaps they don't buy many shoes or clothes, but they buy a great deal of luggage and many things, including Venetian shawls, Roman scarfs, alabaster, coral and tortoise shell. Perhaps they don't buy steamships, but they are passengers therein, and thereby they enable us to construct big de luxe liners. They don't buy locomotives or coaches, but they use them and thereby enable us to build* them. . . . "To whom are you going to sell agricultural products and the fruits of noble in dustry? Only to Italians? Never to foreigners? Do you want to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: All Highest Duce | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...purpose is probably less to bring about the execution of details than to establish the practicability of a cloistered area below Mount Auburn Street. The interpretation of the report in a narrow sense would make the Council appear presumptuous; its interpretation as a basic principle on which to construct the new unit allows a remarkable freedom with the ultimate accomplishment of the desired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "WOODMAN, SPARE--" | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

...first proposal is to construct a concrete stand in the open end, of the same architectural design as the original structure. The Class of 1879 has not definitely stated whether this would be regarded as an alteration but has expressed agreement to the remaining two proposals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STAND QUESTION REVIVED TONIGHT | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...comfort in their shopping. In the modern Beck Hall families may receive their friends in an atmosphere that will in every way harmonize with the University atmosphere without the hustle and discomfort attached as at present to quarters provided in Boston. It has even further been proposed to construct in the building a large assembly and banquet hall where graduates may meet for any social function no matter how large, furnishing quarters for larger gatherings interested in music or lectures than now obtains in any of the limited space allowed for such functions Commencement week will find all Harvard alumni...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRUSTEE EXPLAINS BECK HALL PROJECT | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...these three facts-the rising bank stocks, the Lindbergh flight, the Mitchell-Armour alliance-it was possible to construct an arresting theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mergers: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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