Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compliment cannot be paid to Harvard Hall. The building which originally stood on the site was burned. The one of today assumed its present aspect in 1870. The architects in this case must have left stairways entirely out of their consideration but compromised with the authorities on a single flight just three and a half feet wide...
...astray by our stupidly standardized civilization". The author recalls that this even-tempered nation of the Orient herself represents a mature and wise civilization which has escaped the ruinous fate of Babylon, Greece, and Rome, and the annihilation which we are told awaits the Occident in its headlong flight. And today, M. Rouff adds, China embraces four hundred million peaceful souls, fearless of death and sublimely happy, loyal, content, filled with self-sufficiency and a desire to be left alone. "What can we accomplish" (referring to the burst of international "generosity" toward China concentrated in the Washington conference) "against...
...Lieutenant Van Duzer Burton '19, Sergeant Victor E. Chapman '13, Private Andre Cheronnet-Champollion '02, Major Elliot C. Cowdin 2d '09, Captain James N. Hall G. 11, Private Robert Hatch L. '12, Chaplain Albert Leo S. T. B. '05, Sergeant Robert E. Pellissier '04; Lieutenant Norman Prince '08, Flight Commander David E. Putnam '20, and Sergeant Harold B. Willis...
...program consists of the following features: first, "The World's Record Altitude Flight," illustrated by motion pictures; second, a talk on "The Moss Airplane Motor Supercharger," by Dr. S. A. Moss, of the General Electric Company, Lynn, inventor of the supercharger; third, a talk on the "Organization of the First Aero Unit of the Massachusetts National Guard," by Major James Knowles Jr., the commanding officer of the Unit. There will be in addition general aeronautical moving pictures...
Revolutionary times and sentiments cast Brattle Street, now "Tory Row" into great disfavor. False alarms in April, 1776, sent citizens in wild flight to "a place called fresh pond" to escape a rumored attack by British troops on the town and college, that "hotbed of rebellion". As we all know, the few college buildings became barracks, while professors and students sought what quiet they might find at Concord...