Word: main
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Streams. The lava formed three main streams. One slid north-east over Nunziata, one east over Mascali to Carrabba, one southwards to Giarre and toward Catania...
...which he had seldom been suspected of having. Spying some of the train crew in the crowd he said: "I think I ought to tell them I am grateful to them. . . . I have come to think of this strip of railroads across the middle of America as my own Main Street, on which I make my journeys from my office to my own front gate...
...Main Street took him to Louisville, Ky. It rained, confetti as well as water. He proclaimed Prosperity once more...
Through the western desert stretches of his own Main Street, Mr. Hoover rested, read books, beamed confidently from the platform. He entered California with the dawn before election. Palo Alto made holiday. To throngs he said, and repeated that evening over the radio: "This enormously enlarged interest is evidence of the great depth of conviction and even anxiety of our people. . . . Whatever the conscience of America determines, that will be right. . . ." Everywhere he made special reference to women. Before noon of election day friends were generally addressing him as "Mr. President...
...their winter recreation. Their interest was so keen, and the sport was so well founded that this year it has gained official recognition. There will be two sections meeting at 4 o'clock and 5 o'clock on Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the apparatus section off the main floor of Hemenway gymnasium. At first the sections will be divided up merely in respect to numbers, but as soon as any classification can be made, one group will be composed of advanced and one of elementary tumblers...