Word: door
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alternate summers, and counts as a half-course for students of Harvard College who take part. The region studied includes beautiful Lake Louise, pictured in one of Sargent's paintings. The course is considered especially advantageous for concentrators in geology, since it provides an invaluable medium for out-door experimentation. This year the expedition will study geological formations in the Adirondacks...
Once again the halls of the League of Nations resounded to the noise of "great argument" about peace, security, arbitration, etc.; but, as ever, the assembled statesmen "came out by the same door" as in they went...
Entering a Metropolitan subway car last week Henri Decharbogne, famed Paris newspaperman, member of the Legion of Honor, was bumped on the head by a closing door, killed. A great cry of protest against the danger of subway doors went up. "Metro" officials, calm, ignored it; said the doors were modeled on those in use in the U. S. for years...
...Story, as the title* implies, is that of a wild goose-chase for happiness. Until she was 18 Judith Earle lived in a solitude broken only by the occasional comings and goings of the children next door. They have been her entire experience of life; of them she thinks or dreams; her thoughts are a tissue of memories,, remembrances of bright small faces, of intense childish devotions, of games of hide-and-seek, all woven together in a dark shining maze, blown and changing like the leaves on an autumn lawn. Then suddenly she hears that the children next door...
...worth saving. Nobody must ever take me seriously. . . ." This was a warning which Judith could not heed. When Jennifer left Cambridge, Judith stayed. For two summers she went abroad. Then when Judith went home she found Mariella and the three boys, living again in the house next door...