Word: outer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Weakened by injuries and by the fact that several key men are concentrating in laboratory courses, Lowell has been an in-and-outer all season. Captain Ralph Murphy and Hal Pinanski have featured the backfield while Eric "Blink" Reppun has been an immovable body at left guard...
Japanese, pursuing their second objective of cutting off China from receiving Soviet supplies via Outer and Inner Mongolia, captured last week Kweisui, the capital of Suiyuan. This province is the third in Inner Mongolia, Japan having taken Jehol in 1933 and northern Chahar in 1935, but although Suiyuan's capital fell last week the entire province was by no means conquered, the Soviet link...
Twenty-eight years ago a group of Chicago's civic minded citizens, headed by the late Charles Henry Wacker, envisioned a great outer drive system which would relieve this downtown snarl by skirting Michigan Avenue, route the main flow swiftly north & south along the very edge of the Lake away from the city's downtown streets. Land was bought, drained, beautified. Sixteen hundred acres of lake shore: were filled in. To the north, Michigan Boulevard was widened into a four-lane local and a four-lane express highway. To the south on manufactured land, a chain of smooth...
Last week President Roosevelt, en route east after a triumphal tour of the Northwest, was on hand to dedicate and open for traffic the last connecting link between the new north and south side outer drives. What Franklin Roosevelt, his head filled with international affairs, had to say about the span he said in 29 vague words: "My friends, I am glad to come again to Chicago and especially to have the opportunity of taking part in the dedication of this important project of civic betterment...
...skyward for occasional vessels to pass in & out. of the Chicago River. Some Chicagoans were disconcerted by the two right angle turns at its southern approach, with only a four-lane highway on Randolph Street for traffic midcity bound. And some complained of bottlenecks getting off & on the main outer artery north & south. But these were minor matters to a populace which now could save from ten to 20 minutes traveling from one end of the sprawling city to the other, and which could now boast, as Chicagoans like to boast, of a shorefront highway system second to none...