Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Enfant Plan. Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant, a French engineer and Revolutionary War officer, was engaged as chief city-planner. Engineer L'Enfant placed the Capitol on a low eminence ever since called "The Hill." About a mile west and north he set the President's House, connecting them with a broad avenue (Pennsylvania). From the Capitol and from the President's House (later the White House) were to radiate other avenues cutting the city's network of smaller streets. A parkway or Mall was to sweep westward from the Capitol to the Potomac. Stately public buildings were to fill...
...these young women were extremely anxious about their Chinaman and whence next month's rent was coming. They went down on their marble terrace and peered through foolish, expensive little opera glasses out over the Yellow Sea, strained their eyes toward the Chinese coast, tried to see a low, rakish ship. Aboard would be, they hoped, the "Sweetest Sugar Daddy in the World," as Marshal Chang Tsung-chang is called by one of his English-speaking women, Miss Anabelle ("Trixie") Cronan...
...their moments of carelessness, especially when their problem is an administrative one extending over long periods and concerned with large investments. The multifold philanthropy of that most generous Scotchman, Andrew Carnegie, is suffering now in one of its branches through the realization that the pension fund is running rapidly low. As a result the Foundation feels obliged to swing suddenly from the prodigal to the closed-purse. Harvard, with a large percentage of the men who benefit by the fund, suffers the hardest blow. The rather violent readjustment of amounts to be paid in the future would doubtless cause...
There has been no opportunity, on account of the strong winds, to go over the new course in the Charles River Basin, but the eights rowed separately and at a low beat from the start to the Harvard Bridge yesterday afternoon...
Despite the high wind which rather hindered the players several good cards were handed in. W. P. Arnold Jr. '31 was low man with a score of 75; Captain J. W. Filoon '29 got a 76, the two together getting the best four ball...