Word: maining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reverberations of discontent with the facilities in the press box at the Union have been heard throughout the Yard. Those who have to occupy this balcony perched high over the main floor have felt for a considerable time that the conditions would not bear comparison with those obtaining in the press boxes of the Yale Bowl or the Palmer Stadium. Anyone who has had occasion to use these facilities even once will agree that the ventilation and visibility is far below that in other similar structures...
...library are 60,000 books and pamphlets, and the number increases yearly. Building C, adjacent to the main Observatory building, contains the famous photographic collection of some 350,000 glass plates--a collection probably ten times as large as the next in size. The photographs were made partly at the Cambridge station, and partly at the various southern stations maintained by the Harvard Observatory during the past 45 years. All of these plates are in current use in the study of the motions, magnitudes, and variations of the stars and other celestial objects; they are studied not only...
This route besides being 12 miles shorter than the Providence, New London road, and eight miles less than by Worcester and Springfield, avoids the heavy through traffic on the two main routes, and runs through no large cities, such as Worcester or Providence. The road is well paved throughout, and has sufficiently easy curves to allow for fast traveling almost the whole...
...route 6. Continue on this, following Hartford signs through Dainelson and Willimantic. Just beyond Willimantic take prominent left fork, U.S. route 8, and a few miles beyond take another prominent left fork onto route 111. Follow this through Marlboro to Middletown and turn right at the end of the main street, and then left onto route 111 From here on, follow the main highway through Durham, where the route number changes to 114, to New Harves joining route 5 just this side of the city...
Pearls fall into two main classes: true pearls and freshwater pearls. True pearls, or "orientals," are formed in oysters by the deposition of concentric layers of nacre, an iridescent substance, around a microbe or some other irritant. Freshwater pearls are formed in molluscs out of non-nacreous material, and are far less lustrous and valuable...