Word: longed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vignettes of blood on snow: a man in a guard's blue jacket and reefer, his long, impassive face, with its heavy eyebrows, oblique eyes, long upper lip and thin mouth pushed into the ground, lying dead, his head pointed toward freedom. That was Convict Sullivan in clothes he had stripped from a captured guard. He had run through the barrage of tear gas that the troopers let loose on the screaming phalanx as it advanced across the yard toward the gate holding Warden Jennings and the other hostages as a screen in front of them. He had run toward...
...first time in British railway history a royal train, carrying King George & Queen Mary and King Christian & Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, reached London behind schedule, stalled 18 minutes by the force of the storm. On his arrival in Britain last fortnight, long King Christian, whose life is a succession of minor mishaps (TIME, March 18, 1928), was stranded for hours on a mudbank. Last week, like Ajax defying the lightning, he re-embarked for home in the height of the hurricane...
...particular interest to the many Harvard yachtmen will be this new book setting forth the history and romance of the more than 200 lighthouses and lightships of the New England coast, scattered between West Quoddy Head and the entrance to Long Island Sound. A knowledge of the stories of the lighthouses will add greatly to the pleasure to be derived from a sail along these shores...
...this latest of his canvasses, Stanford spreads the New York and Canton of the 18th and the long, arduous miles of water between the two before the building of the Panama Canal and the coming of steam changed these miles hardly less than Canton and New York have changed since those early days of the last century...
...evident that the policy that makes such conferences possible through invitations to all the parties concerned performs a necessary service toward the smooth functioning of athletics in this area. Harvard is in peculiarly advantageous position for performing such a service because of its larger equipment and its long-standing athletic prestige. In pursuing the present policy, the H. A. A. has recognized both its obligations and its potentialities toward effecting athletic concord in greater Boston...