Word: main
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main stem of the Western Pacific runs 927 miles from San Francisco to Salt Lake City.* It was once, financially, a hazardous railroad, an iron hope of the executors of the estate of Jay Gould for making a coast to coast system out of the Gould holdings. In the rocky country past Ogden, Utah, the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific dominated; if the Goulds wanted a new road they would have to build one over the mountains. The plan cost money-so much that the Gould roads collapsed and passed into the control of the Equitable Trust Co. Alvin...
MANTRAP?Sinclair Lewis?Harcourt, Brace ($2). For the moment laying aside the loaded knouts with which he has scourged Main Street, Babbitt and the medical profession, Castigator Lewis now swings a cutting quirt upon upholders of "the most blatant of all American myths," namely, Roughing It Like a He-Man in the North Woods. The chief culprit is round, thick, heartily self-satisfied E. Wesson Woodbury, village fatboy grown up to hosiery sales-manager, who backslaps his tired little lawyer-friend Ralph Prescott into taking a canoe trip to Mantrap Landing, upper Canada, and then bully-rags...
Opposite the Widener Library it is now proposed to build a new chapel as a memorial to Harvard's dead in the great way. Plans for this chapel, not definite plans it seems, have been published. These show a curious arrangement. A Gorgian type of main body is used that is an oblong with round-topped windows on each side, and as both ends, under the gable of the root, a recessed effect with columns on either side of the recess. With this is combined a round Lower, supported upon a pavilion of columns and set in the middle...
...main purpose of these concessions was to prevent the possibility of a large American owned and controlled rubber development in Panama, sufficient in scope to make America independent of the present British monopoly of the world's crude rubber...
Miss Webster also stated that as soon as the right man could be found, he would begin work immediately as the here in a picture which has already been planned. She stated that looks were the main thing which counted, acting ability not being of equal importance...