Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opening. The Brothers Van Sweringen, lately very much in the railroad news, will once more emerge into the limelight when they formally open this week (Saturday) their great new Union Station in Cleveland. Grouped around the imposing terminal tower (708 ft. high, tallest west of New York) are the new post office, a bank, and Builders' Exchange, all of them fronting on Public Square. The project cost more than many a complete railroad; between $150,000,000 and $200,000,000. The terminal itself cost $88,560,000 (the original estimate was $60,000,000). The Brothers Van Sweringen, however...
...drinking." Discounting the indefinite phrasing of the charge, which might cover anything from sipping a cocktail to climaxing an evening of drunken driving, assault and battery, and window smashing by setting fire to the college chapel in a fit of alcoholic pique, O'Keefe's suspension brings into the limelight one of the most disturbing aspects of Prohibition as it relates to the American college...
...Colorado to the apparent satisfaction of the general public in that state, Mr. Lindsey is at present offering to the more or less unenlightened sections of the country an opportunity for a close-up of the views which have heretofore afforded him such a goodly share of the limelight. Chief among these, is one which bears upon a problem as complex and important as any which arise to startle the ordinary complacent modern individual. There is perhaps no subject of greater interest to the college student than that of morality vs. the present day economic and social structure; and with...
...terrible mistake. After the ball is ever a press release makes its appearance, carefully explaining that all is well, and optimistically presupposing that this shaft of illumination will dispel the gloom of several weeks accumulation. The press started the excitement and now the University steps reluctantly into the limelight in an attempt to set matters right, but unfortunately, the melody lingers...