Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed viva voce a bill authorizing $110,000,000 expenditures for alterations on six older battleships, construction of eight light cruisers and of six river gunboats (see Page 5). (Previously passed by the House...
...Alterations on the six older capital ships New York, Texas, Florida, Wyoming, Utah, Arkansas to blister* them as protection against submarine attack, to strengthen their deck armor against aircraft bombs and plunging fire, to replace their worn-out boilers with modern oil-burning equipment. Total cost...
...called outside activities at a place like Harvard are numerous and attractive. Men from private schools, particularly come here, not merely with a boy's eagerness to have a liberal taste of such things after the stricter life of school, but with the emphatic exhortation of there older friends that they should be sure to do something for the College. They, accordingly, feel deeply the responsibility that the dances in Boston go off successfully, and that there are a sufficient number of candidates to manage our teams, edit our papers, and so forth. All this is good in moderation...
...plans of the 1926 Senior Dormitory Committee, juniors will begin to give serious thought to their rooming problem for next year. The prospect of obtaining rooms in remodeled Massachusetts or the new Holden dormitories will doubtless tempt a wholesome rivalry for these vantage points, but may also make the older Yard dormitories appear less desirable. The supercomforts of the Freshman halls, added to the freedom of living for two years where one pleased, may have produced fastidious tastes. The gradual approach to senior's state may have worn away the thrill which, three years earlier, greeted the thought of issuing...
...older buildings which follow the English style are very beautiful: a great deal more so than the newer ones," Mr. Fetvadjian told a CRIMSON reporter when he was asked about the much discussed Yard architecture...