Word: dump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...center of the Yard was largely dissipated last night by the discovery that previous to the construction of Appleton Chapel and the old Gore Half Library all of the Yard cast of University Hall was a barren waste. The part immediately behind University I was evidently used as a dump heap which accounts for the presence of the broken cups and plates there...
...most exciting experience was encountered when he was caught running contraband rice into Hongkong, and was forced to dump his cargo over the side of his sampan...
...Mayor of St. Mihiel, the Municipal Council and the Cure have all complained! When they look to find what the Massachusetts memorial is they see a wide-open speakeasy run by squatters. It is a dump with old shacks and tumble down buildings on it. The French authorities cannot interfere, as it is Massachusetts territory...
...school of her own, a school to "make colored girls plain and decent." She began in a rented house with five girls. She got five dollars for singing at a festival and made the first payment on the site of her present Bethune-Cookman College, at that time a dump-pile. Her girls cleared away the rubbish to give the-workmen room. In 1905 the school was chartered. In 1914 Mrs. Bethune bought a farm to "teach the girls sense," and to raise vegetables for the table. By 1918 people had given enough money to build an auditorium. Later Governor...
...Norman, Okla., Custodian T. I. Stark of the city dump ground stuck to his post for five days, digging diligently with a broken knife in the garbage pile, examining every orange rind and scrap of paper, until he found a tiny bit of blackened bandage. Twentyfour hours after this find, a tiny silver tube was found in the litter and restored to its owners, Dr. E. S. Lain and Dr. M. M. Roland. The tube contained a grain of radium, worth $4,000; had been thrown away by a careless nurse and located approximately in the dump heap...