Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Foley had also supervised the erection by Spratt's Patent Ltd. of a mile of temporary kennels, in which the dogs lay panting, yapping, sleeping, in which handlers & owners, as well, occasionally took refuge. In three days the So tons of dogs were fed four tons of Spratt's dog food, a sop of wheat, meat, bone dust, and water. Foley for his order, Spratt's for their larder, between them pocketed a large slice of the 875.000 laid out by the Club. Other major expenses: $20,000 each for rent of the Garden...
While Hawley spoke of "the beginning of some elevated highway construction in cities before long," and mentioned the fact that it has been tried in small cities, he doubted if they could be economically justified. "Their cost will be in the neighborhood of $5,000,000 a mile in our larger cities, considering both construction costs and damages to abbutors, and then will be useful only to those having long distances to travel...
Wide-spread interest has been aroused in the musical world by the arrival in America of Mile. Nadia Boulanger, who is lecturing at Radcliffe during the second semester. And whether lecturing or directing the Glee Club and Radcliffe Choal Society, she makes music live with her lucid and sympathetic expositions...
...been conducted abroad by Mlle. Boulanger at the concerts of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London last November, and in the autumn previous. She is peculiarly fitted to interpret this work, since at the Paris Conservatory she was a pupil under Faure. Dr. Koussevitzky will lead the orchestra while Mile, Boulanger plays the organ...
...event, the open relay, which Yale won. It is worthy of mention that the crowd gave Hutter the greatest ovation not when he took the 220 in record time, not when he took the 100 in record time, but when he pulled through with the second in the quarter-mile grind...