Word: maining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situated on the corner of Harvard and Quincy Streets. All men connected with the University are eligible for membership, up to the physical capacity of the building. Those who were not members last year and wish to join, may do so at either the Bursar's Office on the main floor of Lehman Hall, or at the Hemenway Gymnasium. The due for the year, which are charged on the University term bill, are ten dollars...
...urging peace, met in the District Attorney's office. There was Ziang Ling Chang, the Chinese Consul, Lee Kee, President of the Chinese Benevolent Association, Leong du Ching, Chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Chu Man Sing, Secretary of the Four Brothers' Association, Professor Guy Main of Columbia, Ong Gong Yee, potentate of Chinese Freemasons, Lou You, head of the Chinese Citizens' Alliance. A most august assemblage-all urging peace in the good name of their country and their race...
...troops were embarked at Melilla to the east and cruised along the Riff coast for two days with convoying battleships, both French and Spanish, shelling enemy works. After two feints, one morning the battleship Paris steamed into Alhucemas Bay and began to shell the Riff positions at the main beach. For four hours the bombardment with 12½-in. guns continued. The Riffs replied with their handful of 6-in. batteries, which of course did no serious damage to the heavily armored Paris. Meanwhile the Spanish troops, 16,000 strong, in steel "beetle boats," the same type as those used...
...then, with a sickening, sliding motion it had started to earth while gas-tanks, oil-cans, girders crashed about. It landed near a grove with 22 survivors. At some point in the maelstrom, Lieut. Sheppard was thrown from the hulk. His body was found a mile from the main wreckage, a bit of guy-rope in one hand, a bit of rigging in the other...
...main floor there will be a three-story auditorium for undenominational Church services, and a bank, to be known as the Missionary National Bank of New York...