Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yesterday, at the same time that ground was broken for Yale's new Institute of Relations building, President James Rowland Angell announced that the general education board and donated an additional $500,000, making available a total of $2,000,000, the remainder having come from the Rockefeller Foundation. President Angell believes that this building will be ready for use before the next academic year, despite a considerable delay caused by the refusal of a cobbler, Giacomo Como, to vacate a small shack until his lease had expired. An agreement was reached by which he will house his shop...
...books for the use of first-year men in the departments of History and English, in addition to a splendid circulating library, has been moved. The building was for several years on Bolyoke Street at South Street, but plans for the new House behind Gore Hall required that the ground on which the building stood be cleared for the erection of the new plant...
...basis of watching the two men play it is this writer's opinion that Kozeluh could beat the Frenchman. He doesn't attempt to blast his opponents off the court and therefore would fall no easy victim to the infallibility style which Cochet plays so faultlessly. His ground and back court strokes are the most beautiful examples of coordination and effortless skill to be seen on a tennis court. They are of a type to keep an opponent away from the net as much as possible and simply wear him down. On the defense he is if anything faster than...
...shingles should go on the free list, abandoned to the enemy. Unwilling that this should happen because of sentiment at home, the Westerners urged formation of a western bloc, talked of getting 13 Republican brigades to defend the wood, hoped to induce six western Democratic brigadiers to yield the ground to them for a division of the spoil. Fearing the result of such fraternizing, the Republican high command looked on alarmed...
Back on the ground again. With a whole skin, and without breaking his neck. Grinning...