Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Venezuela, Eugene Manners, oil scout, "matches Yankee shrewdness against Latin cunning . . . and unscrupulous Dutch competitors." The heroine is "Sola Merida . . . whose flamelike beauty had so ill a setting in a foul cafe." Flamelike Sola appears at first as the daughter of Peon Pacheco. In the last chapter she is revealed as the entirely legitimate daughter and heiress of the aristocratic Toros...
Since John Harvard and the Tiger picked up their moleskins and refused to play several years ago, athletic representatives of the two universities have met in various sports. Today's golf match is not the first instance. The relations at those times have been reported as always cordial and friendly. Coupled with this is the fact that Harvard and Princeton men will appear to speak to each other. Well then one might ask what's the matter? Frankly we do not know...
...Reverend Charles Edwards Park, D.D., Minister of the First Church. Unitarian of Boston, will conduct the service in Appleton Chapel this morning at 8.45 o'clock...
...proposed construction relieves the burden of both the architect and the Athletic Association since the expense involved in constructing a temporary roof at the former stage of operations is very much reduced. The $700,000 previously subscribed provided for construction up to the first floor, and included locker room facilities and the swimming pool...
...erect a temporary roof upon the conclusion of the first floor would therefore necessitate a large amount of steel, to bear the strain that will now be undertaken by the permanent trusses. The cost of a temporary roof over the first floor was estimated by the architects at $46,000, a figure which was unusually large because of the expensive material that must be included in even such a temporary structure...