Word: piers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...funneled Italian freighter steamed into Gravesend, England, last week and tied up safely at its pier. Flags on other craft dipped a salute, sirens screamed. In London a relieved Lady Chamberlain telegraphed to Premier Mussolini that his ship was safe...
Instrumental Clubs Program Brattle Hall 1. Veritas March Densmore On the Pier Goldman Banjo Club 2. Johnny Harvard Chorus of the Bacchantes Gounod Vocal Club 3. "Harvard Club Special". Mr. G. W. Briggs '31 and Mr. R. G. Edwards '31. 4. Frasquita Lehar Waltz in A Major Brahms Mandolin Club 5. Mr. DeWitt Stetten '30 6. Russian Fantasy arr. by Lange Why Was I Born? Kern Gold Coast Orchestra Intermission--Ten Minutes 7. Ein Karleksmatt I Barcelona Lindberg Selections from "Pinafore" Sullivan Mandolin Club 8. Mr. John S. B. Archer '30 9. Glorious Forever Rachmaninoff Old Man Noah...
Forgetful of the details of that North Russia campaign of the A. E. F., New York City paid the corpses brief homage. Fort Jay guns banged out a salute of 17 guns. Flags were half-staffed. In a pier baggage room in Hoboken was held a funeral service. Many a wreath was stacked around the coffins. Drums rolled. Rifles discharged thrice. Buglers blew "taps." There were no crowds, no major-generals, no Congressional committees...
...assist the City of New York in formulating a new building code. His colleagues number 220, chosen by the Merchants' Association of New York to represent the public in future hearings on the building code. A city within a city is Brooklyn's great Bush Terminal. There are piers, warehouses, factories, railroad lines and terminals, a vast panorama of industry that unrolls itself over 20 acres of South Brooklyn waterfront. This industrial city has a daytime population of 35,000, its own police force, and its own courts for the settlement of internal disputes. It is the creation...
...round face moon-pale, Mayor Boess stood by the rail of the superspeedy S S. Bremen as she was warped into her pier at Bremerhaven. Dock police were struggling with shouting Communists who strove to hold aloft a six-foot banner on which the words BOESS-SKLAREK were accusingly visible. Deep boos, shrill whistles echoed from the dockside...