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...rowed a very slow stroke for about a half-mile, then raising it gradually to 35 or 36 as they drew near the end of the course. F. A. Clark '29, captain last year, observed a great deal of the workout from a single, when he arrived at the pier several minutes after the crews...
...designed the square-cut Imperial Hotel in Tokyo and his theory that architecture should be adapted to modern materials and building methods was justified when the structure withstood the earthquake of 1923. In Buffalo he built a factory for Larkin Co. which was one of the first to emphasize pier and grill construction. The ateliers of Europe long ago paid respect to Architect Wright. Progressive U. S. architects long ago fell in with his rectilinear mode because it is easy to build. Hand-carved traditional ornament, always eschewed by Wright, is almost universally regarded now as an artificial extravagance...
...motor ship" (that is, with Diesel instead of steam propulsion), the Lafayette is the largest liner of this advanced type in the French merchant marine. As she was warped into her Manhattan pier not only New York but Virginia officially welcomed the mission Dampierre. In their famed colonial uniforms, Virginia's historic Monticello guard stood at stiffest attention. Just so their ancestors stood to be reviewed by General de La Fayette...
...admitted, however, having had "a ten-minute visit with Mrs. Dawes [wife of the U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain] over the telephone." On the pier, Mrs. Borah did not exercise any courtesy-of-the-port order...
...matter of course the Somalis prepared for knife play. Retiring down the pier, pretending to disperse, they telephoned to blackamoors across the Tyne who presently swarmed over in ferryboats. Only English newspapermen covered what next happened, and they conceived it their duty to be brief and vague. All despatches from the scene were studiously played down by British editors. Example: "Several Englishmen and two Somalis were gravely injured by knives and razors. . . . The whole police force of North Shields became engaged and was forced to charge time and again before quiet was restored. Even then the police were able with...