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...William Augustus White Shakespeare Quartos safely and gratefully received. This gift marks an epoch in the history of Harvard Library. Our warmest thanks to your mother, to the members of your family, and to yourself. (Signed) A. Lawrence Lowell...
...named anything else but "Spirit of St. Louis, 2nd"-and the succeeding planes he has built for himself, "Spirit of St. Louis, 3d-4th-" etc? The city of St. Louis sponsored his epoch-making flight and this generous, far-sighted act is responsible for all of the glory which has immortalized the man and his achievement...
...moment later, Mr. Jones whispered: "He's gone away from us." A political epoch had gone...
Bundling. The winters about Cape Cod are cold and the evenings, in the epoch before the mightiest minds were turned to providing parlor entertainment, long and uninteresting. Young sparks also were compelled to walk the long miles that lay between their cottages and those of their well-beloveds. Arriving tired and cold, they sought some warmer, some sprightlier diversion than sofa sitting in a chilly chamber. Bundling was invented for their convenience. It consisted of putting girl and boy into neat, warm, supposedly secure garments and tucking them into bed, where they might lie, talking or drowsing through the winter...
...Commonplace." "These results have not been easy to accomplish. They have been extremely hard. They have been anything but commonplace. They mark a new epoch and set a new record in successful Government financing...