Word: containers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part of the work of housing married students in the University, the Harvard Housing Trust has just authorized their architects, Kilham, Hopkins, and Greeley to proceed with the final plans for a new group of three buildings, which will contain approximately 30 apartments. The new buildings are being constructed primarily to meet the increased demand by graduate students for smaller apartments...
Despite the fact that on paper Europe's probable entrants in the 5,000 and 10,000 metre races have better records than the American records at the corresponding distances, the team from the United States should contain potential point winners, though it lacks outstanding stars, Coach Farerll believes...
...Leon and the new Condado-Vanderbilt Hotel. Juan Ponce de Leon was appointed by Columbus the Lieut. Governor of "Hispaniola" (Haiti) and from there captured the island of Porto Rico, believing it to abound in gold. Thence, he set out to discover the present island of Bimini, supposed to contain the "Fountain of Youth," but missed Bimini and discovered a bogus spring in Florida...
Nearly everybody recalls such letters in the native press; letters from missionaries, letters from soldiers; letters from tourists struggling to describe in words that the hometown will understand 77 wonders of another world. Occasionally they contain a real news story. John H. O'Connor's did. The inauguration* of construction work on the first Persian railroad, which will connect the capital, Teheran, with the Persian Gulf, is an event of which many internationally minded U. S. citizens are unwillingly ignorant...
Plans. The outstanding and controversial features of farm-relief plans have been, a) Federal price-bolstering and b) tariff adjustment. Plans currently urged contain these features as follows...