Word: finales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skyscrapers decreed. Never had such a cluster been decreed before. Between elegant Fifth Avenue and shoddy Sixth in the next nine years, 14 slab-sided tombstones uprose. Last week, wearing a pair of workman's white gloves, Mr. Rockefeller drove a silver rivet into the 14th and final building, to symbolize the completion of his $100,000,000 monument...
...Belgium's defense was in final readiness, and correspondents were shown that country's new defense against tanks: mobile, steel-girder "gates" on rollers, which can be pushed across country, two men to a gate, or dragged in long lines by tractors. Chained together, the gates form a resilient wall which impedes tanks butting it yet is not easily broken by shellfire. Tanks slowed down by the bending wall would make easy targets for defensive fire. Belgium was said to have enough such gates for a continuous wall all along her German frontier...
...Final tabulations showed that Harvard students stand nearly four to one behind the recent Neutrality legislation, favor by a very narrow margin an immediate peace conference, but are opposed by a somewhat wider margin (236 votes) to American participation in such a conference...
Practice was carried on in routine fashion yesterday afternoon as Coach Dick Harlow handed out the final dose of hard work to his men in preparation for tomorrow's game. There was the customary display of Cadet plays and formations, the usual amount of hopeful pass offense, and finally some signal drills...
...Final plans for the annual H.S.U. Freshman Dance, to be held in Memorial Hall tonight at 8:30 o'clock, have been completed, and, according to the committee in charge of the affair, at least 1200 are expected to attend. Because over 600 girls have accepted invitations, upperclassmen will be very welcome...