Word: night
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from my sister - one of the storms victims - which I will translate in part: "This hurricane was worse than the storm of 1899 (she writes). "We had to move to a house stronger than ours - but the wind shook the walls like a young tree. During one day and night we remained under that house -ours flew away -next day I had no place to go. So I took two pieces of corrugated iron, leaned them against a tree and that is my home and the children's. We have no clothes presentable. "For 24 hours I couldn...
...season when precinct workers are trained to become watchers at the polls. In Manhattan, last week, an oldtime ballot-fixer explained some of his oldtime tricks, including the following: Taking the election inspectors on a party the night before, and keeping them there...
...election of five members of the class of 1931 to the Editorial and Business Boards of the Harvard Lampoon was announced last night...
...somewhat indifferent records the only other time that the cadets have been in Boston en masse was in 1821, when a corps of 235 marched up the Hudson and over the mountains from the plains of west Point, a hike of some 250 miles. Unlike the trip last night when all were protected in luxurious sleeping case, the corps of 1821 weathered in their tents and lean-tos varying degrees of clemency. Much of the trip, according to the newspaper account published in the Boston commercial Gazette of August 9 1821, was made in adverse weather conditions. On the last...
...live again for you, my dear general, the horror of last night? At dusk the enemy laid down a barrage of kants. All night long we could see shafts of flame biting the midnight sky--the big goethes. At dawn, the tower where we are huddled was schlegelled...