Word: downes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Explaining his motion to the Council, Councilor Toomey said, "Due to the fact that the Fellows of Harvard University have decided to enter into a much better relationship with the city, I can foresee their willingness to sit down with city officials and deed this land."
"Calling CQ...calling CQ...CQ" can be heard nightly rolling down the dim staircase from the heights of Weld Hall. Not the police, not Admiral Byrd, but John McG. Cochrane '43, the only undergraduate who runs and operates his own transmitting station here at Harvard.
All these things showed a remarkable restraint on the part of U. S. speculators (save for the "little fellows" whose odd lot purchases have exceeded their sales for the past month). U. S. business still waited to see whether consumption would catch up with increased production, whether real war orders...
That tradition got off to a flying start with the fight against the colonial laws of primogeniture and entail, which permitted handing down intact such estates as that of the Van Rensselaers (3,000 farms, 436,000 acres). Far more complicated is Author Myers' tracing of that tradition in...
Previous experience for candidates is not necessary, authorities pointed out, "yet after only nine months, with only 215 hours in the air, they are at the controls of a 400-mile-an-hour pursuit ship, or looking down from the heights of a giant 'Flying Fortress' rearing through the sky...