Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work in connection with Indian allotments on the nearby Yuma reservation, I came upon one of the oasis scenes in the making in a large grove of date palms. Naturally I stopped to look and got close enough to see everything pretty well. I finally decided that I had seen the lady in the jodhpurs in movie but was not greatly impressed by her looks. Probably the bathtub scene you describe would have given a more favorable impression...
...conflagration of the Crystal Palace last week sent towering 500 feet in air a column of flame seen by rustics in eight counties round about and was called the biggest London blaze since the historic "Great Fire" of 1666. One of 90 fire engines which struggled vainly to save the Exhibition Hall accidentally soused His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, the youngest son of Queen Mary, who was nicknamed by playfellows at school as "The Scent Bottle." In last week's unreeling of an Empire crisis, sleek, scented Kent was most of the time an orchidaceous extra waiting...
Circumstances complicate his mission. One is that when he meets Margo in the square outside her house, they fall in love with each other. The others are that both Judge Gaunt (Edward Ellis), who sentenced Romagna, and Trock Estrella, just out of prison and dying of consumption, have also seen newspaper stories which suggest the advisability of reopening the case. All three-the killer, the avenger and the blundering judge-arrive at the Esdras basement tenement the same night...
...They turned it over by hand when it failed to function on the paper's first '"run." Later expert Pressman Jim Gauntlet was called in consultation from Seattle. Cried Jim Gauntlet when he spied the News-Herald press: ''Good God! I thought I had seen the last of that thing 25 years ago!" Most unique publishing difficulty under gone by the fledgling News-Herald lay in the fact that while its editorial, business, advertising and circulation departments worked on boxes and kitchen tables in one building, its composing room was a block away and its faithful...
Since his inauguration in 1909 President Lowell has seen Harvard lead the way in some of the most notable contributions of modern times to American education. The introduction of the House Plan, the founding of the School of Business Administration, the tutorial system, and the system of concentration and distribution have all taken place under his leadership. As President Angell wrote on the occasion of Lowell's seventy-fifth birthday "his service to Harvard has been of the most notable character and has been recognized all over the country as contributing to the development of American education in many...