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...garage, now being built in the Yard between Emerson Hall and the President's House, marks what may be the first structure in a new building program under President Conant. It faces Quincy Street along the gravel driveway, and is constructed of red brick, inn harmony with the other buildings in the Yard. The two swinging doors will be set in colonial arches of white wood, and besides the four big square windows and the door, there will be two round windows in each gable-end, at the front and back of the garage. This will heighten the Georgian effect...
...They screwed her scrawny and gaunt with their seven-year panics: They bought her back on their mortgages old-whore-cheap: They fattened their bonds at her breasts till the thin blood ran from them: Men have forgotten how full and clear and deep The Yellowstone moved on the gravel and grass grew When the land lay waiting for her westward people...
...causeways); ''bewildering" (the endless exhibits, the jostling crowds); "disorderly" (the hodge-podge of scientific displays and Coney Island peep-shows); "interesting & instructive" (the industrial exhibits, the historical displays; but, even more so, the naive, gum-chewing, beer-swigging crowds); "wearying" (the 82 miles of exhibits, the hard gravel walks, the heat); "exasperating" (the incessant cries of "'Yeah, Folks!" "Step this way folks." "Hot dawgs, hot dawgs!" "Mister, have you tried our health drink?"); "amusing" (the comments of the crowd); "salacious" (the sideshows of the Midway); "tame and unoriginal'' (the same shows...
...girl in the school. Some other Friends' parents: Newton D. Baker, Herbert Hoover, President Raymond Allen Pearson of the University of Maryland. Representative Samuel Billingsley Hill of Washington. Mr. Justice George Sutherland has a grandson at Friends'. Charles Augustus Lindbergh used to play in the gravel yard of the schoolhouse on I Street and Archibald Roosevelt, Princess Chichibu of Japan and Minister to China Nelson Trusler Johnson all went there...
...Station consists of an excavation in solid rock 22 feet square, with the floor 15 feet beneath the earth's surface and the roof covered with six feet of rock and gravel. It is completely lined with concrete walls two feet thick, and the delicate recording instrument will be placed on concrete piers 30 Inches high, and five feet wide. This insulation will insure almost perfect recording of earthquakes, as the station will be entirely free from traffic disturbances, temperature changes, and all other interference...