Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...according to an announcement made yesterday at University Hall. Kirsopp Lake, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History, and A. E. Norton '04, professor of Mechanical Engineering, will be on leave during the second half of 1929-30, while Professor H. T. Stetson, of the Harvard Astronomical Observatory is to go on leave for the entire academic year...
Turner will go to Vienna where he will conduct a research on the subject, "Socialization of Emotional Expressions in Infants and Young Children...
King Gustaf of Sweden, according to screeching Riviera news organs, "almost broke the bank at Monte Carlo," last week. Even if he had broken the bank, it would have been no staggering feat, for breaking-the-bank simply means that the banker of one roulette table is obliged to go to the cashier of the house and get some more money. Players winning as little as 5,000 francs ($200) have sometimes broken-the-bank...
...straight-eight motor. These qualities are assured by a commission of eight architects who long ago for sook archaeology to create skyscrapers: Harvey Wiley Corbett (Chairman), Ralph T. Walker and Raymond M. Hood, of Manhattan; John A. Holabird, Edward H. Bennett and Daniel H. Burnham of Chica go; Arthur Brown Jr., of San Francisco; Paul P. Cret of Philadelphia...
Costes raged and rushed to Le Bourget field outside Paris. Mechanics warned him that his motor was not in perfect tune, No matter; he would go. And as night set in he pulled his controls. The motor stuttered yet lifted him clear of the ground in a slow ascent. He barely cleared some telegraph wires, a village church steeple. At Bondy Forest, only a few miles from Paris, the motor failed altogether and his plane clattered among the trees. In the rip-up he strained his leg, the only leg left him by the War. Helped to the ground...