Word: gated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Milwaukee, a Lutheran divine, the Rev. Dr. Andreas Bard, rose to his feet before the Luther League of America, suggested that the statue of the goddess Liberty which stands at the gate of New York harbor should be replaced by one of Jesus Christ...
Colonies for lepers are many. In India alone there are 8,850 lepers and 92 asylums. Just inside the East gate of Canton live 1,400 grey men; more lodge at Hokchiang, at Purulia; there is a famed colony at Molokai, Hawaii; an even more elaborate one on the island of Culion, Philippines, established by the U. S. at great expense in 1906; where the lepers have their own stores, theatres and a special kind of currency...
...Maui, steaming out of the Golden Gate, was like a vessel going on a voyage of discovery. Aboard her, a little knot of a score or so Americans constituted the band of adventurers?a strange and motley crew, a handful of college presidents, as many professors, Y. M. C. A. officials, editors, a business man or two, a few politicians, a couple of women. At their head, Captain of the little band of élite and erudite adventurers, x-student at Frankfort-on-the-Main and Munich, Ray Lyman Wilbur, President of Leland Stanford Jr. University, gazed westward across...
Said W. O. McGeehan, the best of all sports writers: "It took place very unostentatiously. There were few correspondents. There seemed to be some doubt as to whether this sort of thing came under the head of sports. There was no advance ballyhoo. There were no gate receipts...
Thomas Hardy, famed novelist, celebrated his 85th birthday quietly at his home, Max Gate, in Dorchester. He received hundreds of congratulatory mes sages...