Word: handing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crimson more than doubled their score in the last half, holding the Milton team to an occasional tally. By the end of the third quarter the Harvard five had things well in hand, running up their lead with little opposition from the Milton team...
...which there are reputed to be but 11 copies in the world, brought $16,000. The exact duplicate of this volume is included in the Memorial Room exhibit. A Kilmamork edition of Burns which sold for $6,750 in New York because of the few lines of Burn's hand-writing contained in it, may be found in duplicate form in the Widener collection, the Widener volume containing several pages of the renowned poet's handwriting...
...Widener is a copy of the first edition of "The Scarlet Letter". This volume brought $1,175 in New York, chiefly because of Hawthorne's autograph on the frontispiece. The Widener volume, however, not only has an autograph, but a word of greeting written in Hawthorne's own hand to the recipient of the book...
...Philadelphia about 1740 by Benjamin Franklin and the system soon spread to the rest of the colonies. Before the introduction of these companies every respectable house holder kept a pair of leathern buckets in his room. When a fire occurred the townspeople pulled out the fire engine, a crude, hand-worked pump which they kept filled by means of bucket chains extending to the nearest lake or river. One of these engines is shown in the accompanying picture with a fireman on top directing the liquid stream...
...stands in place of the former wooden bleachers, the Stadium problem still remains unsolved. Only recently, Mr. Bingham explained the rapidly increasing demand for football tickets, which clearly indicated that the enclosed-Stadium as it now stands is no longer large enough; the time, he said, is almost at hand when each alumnus will be offered only one ticket for the Yale contest...