Word: main
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hall in Walsenburg is at the foot of Main Street. There they gathered, there they got excited, there they talked bigger than their strength. They started marching up Main Street. The State Police fell in beside. At Seventh and Main, the policemen diverted the march from passing the court house, where sat the Commission. Out of the "Wobbly" ranks stepped a ragged man and shot a trooper in the groin...
...their settlements among the Iroquois, there is smoky Bethlehem (Bethlehem Steel Corp.) and Allentown. Beyond them cement mills sit greyly beside the Lehigh railroad tracks. Local stations are one, two, three and four miles apart. From Mauch Chunk (pronounced Mok Tchunk) a network of branches spread westward from the main line up among the anthracite coal mines, whose hard, black products give the Lehigh Valley Railroad its soubriquet of "Black Diamond." At Mauch Chunk the main line gradient becomes so steep that a "helper" engine must help pull on the trains. Thence the roadbed becomes a chute between cliffs, trees...
...admittance makes it probable that all the applicants could and did find second or third choices which proved satisfactory. There is certainly no cause for assuming that limitations on numbers is keeping properly qualified persons from the realms of higher learning. This, in the last analysis, would be the main objection to restriction. As it is, the efficiency of instruction is the most important outlook, and the restriction of the entering class is the surest way of its maintenance...
...necessary $250,000 is given now, the pool can be built immediately. The main building will be erected when the total cost of $1,200,000 has been raised. A provisional gift of $350,000 is available when the remainder of the sum has been collected...
...present plans the inside of the main building is merely divided into squares. It is probable however that about 18 squash courts will occupy the ground and second floors; in the basement there may be a second and smaller swimming pool, primarily for beginners, and on the third floor three basketball courts may be built, a large central floor being flanked on either side by a slightly smaller court. For intercollegiate basketball games on the center court, stands may be erected on the two smaller courts...