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...nuts. We want to live in both worlds." He said the cave was an eighth of a mile long and had "nice vaulted ceilings...
...Olympics, marathon runners end the 26.2-mile race with a dramatic finishing kick into a roaring stadium...
...free to charge whatever they want without FCC approval. In contrast, A T & T rates are subject to Government review. A T & T historically has averaged its prices geographically, roughly equalizing them nationwide. The competitors can vary the prices from location to location, charging more for a 200-mile call, for example, in one area than another. A T & T is obliged to serve the whole country, while the new competitors can pick the most profitable traffic areas...
...that was before The Crash and the Great Depression that followed--and bore me in its wake. For me, Harvard was classes in the hallowed halls, chances to sample the well-honed observations of Kittredge, Lowes, Whitehead and Copeland. But it was also mile-long walks from my family home in North Cambridge, meals at a cafeteria in the Square, and long subway rides three times a week to my uncle's drugstore in South Boston, where I waited on customers two nights a week and all day on Sunday...
...Antonio. Lacking funds, Adams could not explore the region until this year. In the meantime bands of looters had dug into the tombs of the 500-acre area, carrying off jewelry, pottery and carvings. Once at the Guatemalan site, Adams turned his attention to a spot less than a mile from a 130-ft.-high pyramid that was flanked by a cluster of temples. Workers digging an exploratory trench discovered that flakes of flint had been scattered through a layer of masonry, a funerary custom of the Maya. Digging farther, the archaeologists uncovered the remains of a stone platform...