Word: lexington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward West Nichols, retired superintendent to the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va., called "the West Point of the South" by General Pershing. General Nichols was a great inspiration to the cadets, each one carrying away his favorite lines...
...that every story of a skyscraper brought 1,000 more people to a neighborhood. But land is so dear on Manhattan Island that buildings must be tall to earn enough income for expenses. Thus last week Irwin S. and Henry I. Chanin, constructors, announced that their new building at Lexington Ave. and 42nd St. would be 625 feet, 52 stories high. The location is as costly as land within the "Broadway district," a strip of streets about 200 blocks long where the value of real estate, as estimated by the Broadway Association, totals...
Married. Susan Clay, 26, poetess, great-granddaughter of rawboned Statesman-Orator Henry Clay of Kentucky; to William Sawitzky, 47, art-writer and lecturer; in Lexington...
...best to bed down helpless, untidy insane patients Dr. William R. Thompson of the Eastern State Hospital at Lexington, Ky., describes in the Journal of the American Medical Association: He has 34 beds that are "oblong boxes, made of one-inch dressed boards; 6½ ft. long, 30 in. wide and 18 in. deep, standing on legs twelve inches high and painted white. They are filled with fresh sawdust within six inches of the top. From such a trough, the patient cannot tumble out; an attendant can scoop out any sawdust . . . patients do not suffer any inconvenience whatever...
...Russell Blackburn Jr. '29 of Boston and Roger Whedon '29 of Jamaica, New York, to the Literary Board, and of Richard Stedman Holden '29 of Bennington, Vermont, Harrison Lewis '29, of Beverly Hills, California, Edward Reynolds McPherison Jr. '29, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Eugene Gilbert Kraetzer Jr. '29, of Lexington, Massachusetts, to the Business Board...