Word: lakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...things, also. Only last week did there come intimation (not announcement) that the New York Central would electrify its lines all the way from Manhattan to Buffalo. In railroad alignment the road had stood fairly unmoved. Its major action was to take one-third the stock of the Wheeling & Lake Erie from the Van Sweringens, who bought the road from the Rockefellers. They retained one-third
...though you wrote it. I love poetry, and that's what makes me write it, I suppose. Well, perhaps you could hardly call it poetry. I mean a Harvard man wouldn't. There's a Princeton fellow who teaches sloyd at the camp on the other side of the lake, and he said that the lines were so filled with--well, he named it right out--passion, that they fairly seethed. Seethed. Well (No, thanks awfully, I'm quite comfortable just here, this way), I admit I had sometimes thought of myself that...
Between Columbia and Lexington on the Saluda River a lake to impound 100 billion cubic feet of water and generate 261,000 h.p. is abuilding by the new Lexington Power Co., subsidiary of General Gas & Electric Corp...
Married. Conde Nast, 54, smart Manhattan host & publisher (Vanity Fair, Vogue, House & Garden) ; to Leslie Foster of Lake Forest, Ill., granddaughter of late Gov. George White Baxter of Tennessee; in Aiken, S. C. In 1923 Publisher Nast was divorced by Mrs. Clarisse Coudert Nast...
After he got his journeyman's certificate, the Ellis shopboy set out to see what other railroad shops, and the western world to which the railroads ran, were like. He got as far as Salt Lake City, where he took a job in the Rio Grande & Western roundhouse. He got married and began studying in the International Correspondence School. Soon came his first big "break," the blown-out cylinder head, now famed among Chrysler admirers, which he and a helper mended in time to send the mail-train out on schedule...