Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...halls. It would be unwise to open a renovated and rejuvenated Memorial Hall. This experiment, tried as a final resort just before the final closing of the institution, was a failure once, and probably would be again. The most obvious site for one such dining-hall is the vacant lot on the corner of Holyoke and Mt. Auburn Sts., this hall to serve men in the dormitories in the vicinity. Others should be erected where possible with a view toward accommodating the occupants of the Yard dormitories, and the students in the Kirkland St., Cambridge St., and Broadway district. Such...
...Congress. Other supply bills will follow a few days later, so that Congress can clean up its necessary routine before Christmas recess and then plunge into controversial measures. Representative Madden was emphatic in denying any slashing of Army and Navy budgets. Said he: "I have seen a lot in the papers that we would try to squeeze the flesh away from the bone. There is no intention of doing that. . . . We have spent more than any country in the world on aviation. If we haven't got the best aviation in the world we haven...
...Baldwin and a settlement appeared looming on the basis of district agreements between the miners, owners, subject to revision in individual cases by a national coal tribunal under Government auspices. There was every prospect that the miners will have to accept longer hours and lower wages than was their lot before they struck...
...Then there was John M. Van Heusen, who vainly tried to sell the material to collar manufacturers until one day he talked to Isaac ("Iky") Phillips, a shirt manufacturer. Mr. Phillips arranged to give Mr. Van Heusen a royalty and had his Phillips, Jones Co. make up a job lot of the new collars...
...promises. We hold the Islands in trust, not for the politicians alone, or for one race or group, but for all the people of all the Islands. Nearly two thirds of the people are still illiterate, in spite of our splendid educational work there. How can we expect a lot of different tribes scattered over 3000 islands speaking 87 different languages and dialects, and torn by tribal and religious jealousies, to exercise a form of government devised by northern peoples for a northern climate, and resting on the consent of an enlightened electorate...