Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With dubious incredulity and then with exhilaration Germans learned, last week, that in Paris students of the Latin Quarter were rushing up and down the Grands Boulevards shouting and successfully inciting passersby to shout, "Vive L'Alle-magne!" (Long Live Germany...
...Italian quarter of New York gives a clear-cut sensation of a transplanted fragment of the mother country. . . . You know the dream of all Italians in America is to return to Italy...
Died. Charles Edward Montague, 61, satirical author (Disenchantment, Right off the Map, etc.), for a quarter century chief editorial writer of the Manchester Guardian; of pneumonia; in Manchester, England. At the outbreak of the War he dyed his greying hair, understated his age to enlistment officers, later fought in front line trenches and was cited three times for bravery...
...drops were left in the glass after the brushes were twirled and pointed, supervisors complained. The girls were taught to point and clean the brushes with their lips. Thirteen died. Last week the U. S. Radium Corporation was defendant in a suit for a million and a quarter dollars filed by one Raymond H. Berry, lawyer, in behalf of five more female hirelings of the corporation, sick, according to Lawyer Berry and many doctors, unto death. For these five there is no light in darkness except the glow of gold indemnity. Their malady is incurable. Eleven years ago, merry giggling...
...close contest. The Harvard, oarsmen, rowing a lower stroke than their rivals for most of the distance, sprinted too late and, could not overhaul the leaders in the last furlong. The Eli shell nosed out the Princeton entry by ten feet with the Crimson following a length and a quarter behind. The time was seven minutes and six seconds...