Word: largeely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In your issue of July 15 you give a list of the United States cities which have buildings of 21 or more stories. In this list you state that Boston has 65, the same as Chicago. Boston has only two-the Custom House Tower, 495 feet, and the United Shoe...
Such was the great battle of Rancocas Creek, staged last week as a theoretical military problem. The Red "invaders" were non-existent except for a handful of officers to outline their positions. The Blue "defenders" were composed of 6,000 flesh-and-blood officers and men drawn from the regular...
Tragedy loomed. Two squadrons of British submarines had been on maneuvers in the Irish Sea. Early that morning, plowing through a thick fog and a choppy sea, the semi-obsolete H-47 had been rammed by the large, modern L-12. The H-47 had rolled over, sunk almost instantly...
Last year the British House of Commons vetoed by a large majority a proposal to adopt a new Church of England Prayer Book.† Last week the convocations of Bishops and clergy of Canterbury and York reversed that decision, publicly approved of the new prayer book, delivered what was tantamount...
Eight youths from Browne & Nichols, Cambridge, Mass. preparatory school, responded to the shrill yawps of a blond 13-year-old coxswain last week and won the Thames Challenge Cup in the Henley Regatta, second highest English rowing honor.* Not since 1922 when Walter Hoover of Duluth won the Diamond Sculls...