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Shortly after eleven o'clock last Saturday morning, the vicinity of Sever Hall was the site of much activity. Harvard students, finishing up the last classes of the day in anticipation of a big afternoon at the stadium, dribbled out of Sever's wide portal in slovenly contrast to the ramrod posture and brass-buttoned uniforms of members of the Military Academy, who, collected in small dignified groups, were chatting away with one another in a way becoming cadets...
...silent intake of spectators' breaths all but caused a vacuum in the courtroom. At last the fateful decision was at hand, the five-case test of the disputed Wagner Labor Act. Those who had camped at the Court's portal since dawn in order to get seats, felt rewarded. Government attorneys, who had preferred seats, nudged one another expectantly. Mrs. Hughes, who had presumably had a tip from her husband that this would be a good decision day to attend, sat in the front row of spectators paying very close attention...
Directly opposite the front portal of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the new statue will be unveiled next week in the entrance court of Rockefeller Center's International Building. The work of 49-year-old Lee Lawrie, member of Washington's Federal Art Commission, long famed for his work on Nebraska's State Capitol, it shows a beardless, youthful Atlas stepping up to a granite pedestal with bis left foot, bearing on his shoulders a tremendous astronomical globe whose axis will point at the North Star. The whole thing will be 45 ft. tall, high...
...known to natives as the Hoot, Toot and Whistle) which last month let excursionists ride in the locomotive cab, fire the 44-year-old engine, ride on the top of cars for 22 of its 24 miles of track up the Deerfield River valley from the east portal of the Hoosac Tunnel...
...inches, but its six-foot walls stood firm. Next day a White plane flew over the fortress, dropped large packages of foodstuffs. Red batteries finally splintered to bits an ornate door frame of the Alcázar known as "The Portal of the Blood of Christ...