Word: logged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yard, Etc. The Story. These 38 prose sketches of New York-the New York of Chuck Connors and the unsophisticated Bowery and the old-time bread-line-range odd corners of the city and exhume most curious figures from the dust of the first decade of the century. The Log of A Harbor Pilot describes the tossing existence of that strange race of minor vikings, veteran pinochlers all. The Michael J. Powers Association portrays the glad-hand life of a typical East Side boss-derby-hatted ruler over 40,000 would-be Americans. The Car-Yard and the gigantic adventure...
...books is now on exhibition in the Widener Memorial Room of the Library. It is an unusually rare and valuable collection of first editions among which are many books by Dickens and Thackeray, illustrated in colors. Two of the books by Dickens are "The Holiday Grammar and "The Yule Log", illustrated by George Cruikshanks...
Once organization is effected, Congressional affairs will take a slightly different line. The Democrats, while in general unwilling to take the responsibility of initiative in legislation, will be willing to do a little log rolling with any group of Republicans that " gets off the reservation." Some of the leading issues that will come up and probable alignments will...
...given to the construction industry, with a reappearance of a demand for higher wages. But even under slightly higher wage and material costs it is apparent that the " building boom " is going to continue well into 1924 and probably even longer. This will in turn serve as a back log for the iron and steel, lumber, cement and brick industries, and furnish much traffic for the railways...
...horrors which Harvard has inherited from war days is a kind of log cabin without the attractive rusticity of a log cabin, a brown affair, which squats in the lea of Memorial Hall and is called the Bursar's Office. Ps only value has been to show the need of better accomodations for the University's treasury department. The Planning board has at last announced that the little brown thing is to give place to something bigger and finer and few will mourn its "taking off". There may appear some sentimentalists to carry off large bits as treasures...