Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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University of North Carolina Chapel Hill...
...President Coolidge signed a bill authorizing 25 millions to buy the Washington "Triangle" below Capitol Hill, on the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue, between the Botanical Gardens and the Treasury. Besides many unsightly small buildings, the "Triangle" contains Harvey's Restaurant, the Southern Railroad's headquarters, Poli's Theatre and the President Theatre, all of which may now be razed to make way for Federal structures...
...degree." Who ever dreamed that a nerve is capable of carrying 280 messages in a single second? Or that the transportation thereof involves so minute a loss of heat? And by what means; pray, could such phenomena have been so accurately determined? Having thus aroused our curiosity, Professor Hill proceeds to tell us the whole story, sometimes in words alone, but oftener with the aid of well chosen diagrams, charts, or photographs...
...characteristic of the book, moreover, that may ideas are impressed on the perhaps forever, because the author invokes a lasting image for us by writing; for example: "Such a cell is an individual soldier of the army, having his proper place in the company of his fellows-." For Professor Hill is of those rare and fortunate men who having something worth while to say, can say it as well as it could be said...
...that behind such preposterous euphemism as "He spoke as to cheek and chin of the joy of the mutational steel" when he might have said "He was clean shaven," Henry James concealed only a frustrated and mediocre intellect may be heresy to this day in the purlieus of Beacon Hill, but the fact remains and the judicious know...