Word: knolls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Long Island, its bleak, brown countryside frozen stiff and hard by the hoary winds of December, never looked more woebegone and distant that it did today. . . . An old manor house, the property of one of the first governors of New York state, situated on the top of a little knoll at Plandome, is the residence of a half-brother of our wife, Martin Littleton, the well-known criminal attorney...
...train and proceeded to Ludlow, Vt., from whence a funeral procession of automobiles went twelve miles overland along the narrow hill roads to Plymouth. A grave had been dug in the little cemetery, only a few hundred yards from the Coolidge homestead. It lay on a tree-covered knoll. The services were very brief-less than 15 minutes in length. The little Marine Guard saluted, as the bugler sounded taps...
Bowdoin will bring seven runners to Cambridge, six of whom were members of the Maine institution's team last year. The veterans are Captain Plaisted, East-mann, Foster, Howes, Miller, and Knoll. The seventh man on the team is Berry. The Bowdoin harriers under Coach Magee's tutelage last season made an excellent showing. In the Maine Intercollegiates the team came in second, being headed only by the University of Maine. In the New England Intercollegiate Cross Country Run last year the Bowdoin runners placed fourth, Maine, Bates, and M. I. T. defeating them in the contest for places...