Word: filles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports will make every effort to arrive at a conclusion regarding the question of the stands to fill the end of the Stadium when it convenes tonight, according to a statement made last night by W. J. Bingham '16, director of athletics. This problem, which has been a vexing one for the past few years, must be decided this spring if the Stadium is to hold the accustomed number of people during the 1929 football season, for the permission to build temporary wooden stands, which have supplied seats for the last few years...
...Casino Syndicate has used its monopoly power to the detriment of all other "enterprises" in Monaco, suppressing cinema theatres and discontinuing fetes which used to fill even the small hotels with tourists. 4) The authority of the Crown and the extent of the crown lands are still so vaguely defined that in practice the Prince-and in his name the Casino Syndicate-has frequently acted in a manner arbitrary, unjust, scandalous. Finally the resigned and angry councilors made formal demand upon Prince Pierre that he summon his father-in-law Prince Louis from Paris and set up a commission...
...Oxford cannot boast of the yellow, strangling fogs which infest London and turn her days into hideous night, she can offer a specimen of a sort no less disagreeable to newcomers. For a few hours at least during these quiet winter days, a thick white layer is apt to fill the bowl which the Isis and the Cherwell have made between Cumnor, Boars' Hill, and Shot-over. The dome of the Radcliffe Camera, the spires and towers of St. Mary the Virgin's, Magdalen, Merton, and the Cathedral are lost in the lower reaches of this fog-bank. The streets...
...Congress and President Coolidge is an issue over who shall build and operate electric power plants at the dam (1,000,000 horsepower, potentially). The House voted that the Government should do it. The President, in his Message to Congress this month, said: "Private enterprise can very well fill this field." Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, the Administration's spokesman, offered an amendment making private development of the power phase mandatory. The amendment was beaten, 53 to 24. Senator Borah offered an amendment making power development by the Government mandatory, but Senator Johnson persuaded him to withdraw it because...
...Heavens fill with commerce...