Word: footings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While there is everywhere a feeling of sadness at the parting of old traditions that have existed for centuries only because they have existed for preceding centuries, there is on foot throughout the campi of the land a movement for the sublimation of the passion for the only tradition in regard to the college bell is that it be punctiliously oscillated every morning at seven o'clock for a period not less than much too long. A fine of thirty dollars would not be out of place for this offense; fifty is more in keeping with the estimates...
...present the University has a temporary building at the foot of the so-called Harvard kopje where two telescopes have been in operation for a year. It will take eight months for the new buildings to be constructed it is stated...
Special Shoes. Ground Gripper Stores, Inc. and Kahler Shoe Co. sell special shoes to correct foot ills. They have consolidated with Powers Realty Trust (owner of a shoe factory at Roxbury, Mass.) as Ground Gripper Shoe Co., Inc. They have 103 retail stores in leading U. S. cities and, besides, 1,000 exclusive dealers...
...shall take my new 140-foot schooner," said Von Luckner, "with about ten men from different universities, and five German boys, fine fellows, and go on a cruise for real adventure. You Americans don't know enough about life on the sea, you have no real sailormen; your sailors are all in unions, and they go to sea merely because they can get good pay. You should interest your young boys...
Those leaping, shifting, fugitive things called jaywalkers, who twist their way through traffic, will become an extinct species if the rules of the new traffic code just initiated in Boston are successfully executed. These laws are shaped to hinder foot passengers' shuffling off this mortal coil in the midst of traffic and, secondly, to assist steering wheel handlers, whose skill in manipulating their machines is taxed when the appearing-from-no-where body of a pedestrian is suddenly and unexpectedly eyed through the windshield...