Word: landed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After 51 years of service as a University dormitory Beck Hall and the traditions connected with it, are again threatened with destruction. It has been purchased by the Beck Hall Trust, of which G. P. Davis '14 is the trustee. Plans for the future of the building and the land on which it rests remain doubtful, but it is possible that it may be torn down to give place to a new structure to be built on the Beck Hall lot and the property abutting it on the east. The transaction has just been brought to a close...
...race then was Lady Mary's. Zooming went she over the dark green heart of Africa, over the crystal blue of the longest freshwater lake in the world (Tanganyika) . And then, name of a dog, while she spiraled down to land at Tabora (10,000 blackamoors gaping) her motor missed. Suddenly the motor died cold. The Moth crashed to earth, a twisted wreck. She was only slightly injured. Fever loomed...
Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, told the Boy Scouts of America that they could use 90,000 acres of his land near Red Bank, N. J., for a summer camp...
...HOTEL-Elizabeth Bowen-Dial Press ($2.50). The stagnant monotony of English middle class vacation has crept into this reflection on the malign chance of propinquity. A group of English transfer their habits of life to an idle existence on the Italian Riviera, where, unaffected as they are by the land that offers them hospitality, they depend the more upon each other for wherewithal to pass the time away: tennis, botany excursions, picnics, bridge. And every one knows just which the other is doing, and every one knows with whom. There is the agitated little Mr. Lee-Mittison, pathetically chipper when...
Therefore it is in a sense of exploration that the Vagabond will venture within the stronghold of Jordan Hall tonight to witness one of the land-marks in the history of the so-called new movement in music in Boston. For attention is being entered tonight on music written for the most part for small combinations of instruments, music which has rarely been heard previously. Works like the "Octet" by Stravinsky, and portions of the same composer's "Story of a Soldier"; songs by a young German modernist, Hindemith and above all, the very famous work for reciting voice...