Word: groups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would appreciate it very much if you can correct this error for the reason that the Department of Commerce Building is the largest of the group of buildings and the stone contract is the largest stone contract ever...
...Healy, for instance, an engaging, bald-headed young man, is assisted in his swift antics by a trio of abject, greasy nondescripts whose entrance prompts Mr. Healy to remark: "The pool rooms are empty." This group becomes embroiled with a wrestling bear which seems more human than any of them except Mr. Healy. Later the wrestlers try a fearsome barber-shop ballad to the accompaniment of Mr. Healy's orchestra. These scenes are blunt, vulgar, hilarious. A plump-cheeked brunette, Betsy Rees, might well be given more time...
...Brewster, Ohio. The Van Sweringens, who consider the Wheeling & Lake Erie a desirable unit in their proposed Fourth Trunk Line, have acquired control of the road through stock held by the Nickel Plate and Alleghany Corp.* But Frank Taplin, largest single stockholder and leader of a powerful minority group of Wheeling & Lake Erie stockholders opposed to Van Sweringen denomination, has also a Trunk Line plan. Less ambitious than the Van Sweringens, the Taplins plan what is primarily a fast freight line between the Great Lakes and Baltimore; to them the Wheeling & Lake Erie is quite as essential...
Arriving at New London at 5.30 o'clock, the group will make the trip upstream in launches and take possession of the new living quarters, first building in the new group on the Thames to be completed. Plans as released yesterday call for no work-out tomorrow evening but the shells have already been shipped to the Nutmeg State quarters and will be ready for service Monday morning. For the time being only two Harvard launches will be in use. The "Black Pup" goes down today over the railroad and the "Patricia" is now making the journey via the water...
...made president in 1882. Three years later she helped raise the $20,000 necessary for the purchase of the historic Fay House, and when in 1890 still more space was needed, she was again a foremost worker in raising the needed funds. She and the others of the group of seven saw the work gradually but steadily extended and prosper until, in 1893, under Mrs. Agassiz's leadership negotiations were diplomatically conducted for Harvard to take over the management of the annex property...