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...store in the new building, thus enabling residents and their families added facility and 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...
...discomfort of last week's heat, the report on the relation between weather and crime, made by Dr. Edwin Grant Dexter, to the National Probation Society, received national attention. Dr. Dexter analyzed the 12-year police and weather statistics of New York and Denver. His conclusions...
...Supreme Court to discuss the Philippines and, doubtless, the impending appointment of a new Governor-General. As he put on his coat and started to leave the White House, Judge Taft's constitutional smile took on a baffled expression. He walked off but soon returned, heaving with discomfort. By mistake, he had been helped into the coat of Senator Robert Beecher Howell of Nebraska. Changing coats, Judge Taft chuckled something about reducing, walked off smiling broadly once more. Big but not bulky, Senator Howell was closeted, all unknowing, in a 45-minute discussion of "general matters" with the President...
...head for a card game insult. Mr. Murgatroyd drops dead after taking a right to the chin. A motorcycle and a friend's lugger land John Creed safely among the dunes of France. With Scotland Yard sleuthing furiously in alternate chapters, John Creed evades the law through great physical discomfort, many a hairbreadth escape, but never for an instant ceases to be a perfect English gentleman. He rides in a circus, skins through a fire, hides in a creek, saves lives right & left while preserving himself for a happy and innocent ending. Author Marsden's smooth blend of color...
...despatch was from Capt. George Hubert Wilkins, black-bearded Australian soldier of fortune, and his sky pilot, Carl Ben Eielson, saying they had crawled safely off the Polar Sea after 17 days and nights of discomfort...