Word: line
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sirs: Referring to out Brownsville-Mexico City line (TIME, Tampico, May 27) you state that there are two stops and that the price of the fare is $200 U. S. Cy. There is but one stop and the fare is $100 U. S. Cy., or an equivalent of $200 pesos Mex. Gold...
...took to their heels. Customs Inspector Jonah Cox landed, stood guard over the liquor while his comrade went back to headquarters for assistance. Eugster & friends came back. A fight started. Eugster was shot by Cox, died the next clay. The U. S. quickly exonerated Cox for a killing "in line of duty...
Suddenly from the rocks behind and above came the smash of rifle fire. Soldiers fell. Hastily the French commander flung out a skirmish line, halted the advance. His little patrol was completely ambushed by 3,000 ragged, bearded, fierce-fighting Moors. Firing every inch of the way the French patrol retreated through the pass to the cement blockhouse of Ait Yacoub (Jacob's Hummock). For 48 hours the garrison of 360 French and Senegalese stood off 3,000 yelling bloodthirsty tribesmen owing allegiance to no recognized Sheikh, who had sworn to die rather than submit to French rule...
...class. Such is not the intention of those advocating the House plan. The class of 1934 we hope will be just as much of a unit 30 years hence as is the class of 1904 today. The best way to insure this is by allowing the Freshman class to line together as a unit, to find its feet as a class before the later subdivision into houses...
...makes it certain that the Harvard collection of finely printed books will be easily equal to that of any other institution. The recognition of Printing as a fine art is closely connected with book illustration, and Mr. Hofer is adding important examples of the best work in this line, from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. In the nineteenth century, there was a brilliant period, when books were being illustrated by Kate Green-away, Randolph Caldecott, Sir John Tenniel and Walter Crane. The Widener collection brought to Harvard a good assemblage of Miss Greenaway's work, while Tenniel is very...