Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tobacco Tycoon Bernhard Baron set aside last week a fund of ?500,000 ($2,430,000) to be administered in favor of Christian and Jewish hospitals, at the discretion of a board chairmanned by Rufus Daniel Isaacs, the Marquess of Reading...
...member of a family famous in Prague for their sporting activities; when 12, he had saved up enough money which he made from serving as a ball-boy to buy himself a tennis racquet. In 1919, not having touched a racquet for five years, he lost a five-set match to Washburn; since then he has not lost any match which he wanted to win. Lacoste, Cochet, Borotra, Tilden-these he has not played because they are, so to speak, amateurs. Kozeluh is a small brown man, as flexible as rubber, as quick as a squirrel; he speaks English badly...
...aristocrat, he is arrested for treason. On the way to France where Robert is to be punished, the heroine-aristocrat helps to save him and put him in command of the boat on which he was a prisoner. The boat then turns to a peaceful island and its occupants set up their communistic colony. The father of the heroine, a sly shipowner, when he sees French ships sailing by, attempts to betray his son-in-law's renegade democracy to the royal government; only to discover that it has been decapitated as he too will be unless he grows...
...Harvard men all during the fifty old years of its life. For the past few years its status has been doubtful, and heretofore zoning regulations have effectively prevented the erection of any building such as is now contemplated. If they are overthrown in this Instance, a precedent will be set which will expose a large district adjoining the college to commercial development. Such a process of absorption of the residential areas of a growing city by the commercial is an old story, but there still remain in Cambridge many alternate regions for such a move...
...building specify a ten story structure of 100 feet in height with stores on the first floor, and office suites on the second floor. The city building ordinance restricts the height of buildings in that zone to eighty feet. The restrictions of the ordinance would have to be set aside before construction on the apartments could begin. Mr. Emery, in speaking before the board wished to know what assurance adjacent property owners would have, once the zoning restrictions had been laid to one side, that any sort of objectionable structure might not later be erected on the property. The possibility...