Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubt but that Harvard needs one badly. Sanders Theatre, appropriate for lectures, readings, and formal occasions, is inappropriate for large mass meetings and general assemblies. Even the living-room of the Union is inadequate for many functions, as evidenced within late years. The presence of a famous speaker, the joint reunion of classes, important celebrations, football mass meetings--all these demand a large auditorium such as Memorial Hall offers...
During the holidays, hearings were held on this bill by a joint sub-com- mittee of the Senate and House Post Office Committees. The publishers in force attacked it with a great fanfare of protest; they said it was ruinous, they said second class mail had been wrongly accused of causing a deficit. Postmaster General New declared that the bill was fair and absolutely necessary if postal pay was to be increased...
...moon will sweep over the East?brings in Minnesota at sunrise, thence moving southeastward in a gentle curve. It will cross northern Minnesota, nipping Duluth with its southern edge, cross the western tip of Lake Superior, include much of Wisconsin and Michigan on both sides of their joint border, skim over the northern third of Lake Michigan and the northern portion of Southern Michigan, glide over the lower half of Lake Huron, sweep across Ontario, picking up Toronto at its northern edge, span the approaching tips of Lakes Erie and Ontario, cross straight over Buffalo, darken northeastern Pennsylvania and southern...
Distinction comes to her naturally, not only in her own person but as a daughter and a wife. For her father was William Lloyd Garrison, the famed abolitionist, who at 22 was editing the first prohibition paper in the country (the National Philanthropist), who at 24 (in 1829) was joint editor of The Genius of Universal Emancipation, published weekly in Baltimore. He went to prison for failure to pay a fine of $50 for libel when he had referred to a ship carrying a cargo of slaves from Baltimore to New Orleans as engaged in "domestic piracy." Poet Whittier appealed...
Such was the attendance at memorial services for Woodrow Wilson, held at a joint session of Congress. Edwin Anderson Alderman, President of the University of Virgina, and friend of Woodrow Wilson, delivered a eulogy of the dead that was perhaps a bitter draught for some of his hearers...