Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This increasing organization of intramurals has come at a time when every college is in need of such organization, as all over the country Varsity athletics are finding themselves embroiled in the question of commercialization versus non-commercialization. House sports here are a beacon light toward the shore of sport for sport's sake. That enthusiasm and spirit has been injected into these intramurals is a credit to Harvard...
Like a great prehistoric alligator the City of Chicago suns its giant body along 35 mi. of Lake Michigan's western shore. From the city's fanlike tail to the south, from its huge bulbous head to the north and from many a populous suburb is pumped centreward a seldom ceasing stream of traffic, most of which flows into Chicago's chief north & south artery, Michigan Avenue. In the heart of the city the stream congests & clots, to the extreme unhappiness of all motoring Chicagoans...
...Wacker, envisioned a great outer drive system which would relieve this downtown snarl by skirting Michigan Avenue, route the main flow swiftly north & south along the very edge of the Lake away from the city's downtown streets. Land was bought, drained, beautified. Sixteen hundred acres of lake shore: were filled in. To the north, Michigan Boulevard was widened into a four-lane local and a four-lane express highway. To the south on manufactured land, a chain of smooth drives converged toward the city. By 1935 the whole vast project, costing an estimated $100,000,000 was completed...
What Franklin Roosevelt saw, as he drove in an open car along the pack-jammed waterfront, was part of the 16 mi. highway that shoots north along the sandy shore past the 1933 Fairsite, Soldier Field, Field Museum and Grant Park, juts first right then left and north again to cross the Chicago River and the Ogden Slip with the Tribune Tower looming high on the left,* keeps on to wind around swank Gold Coast's apartments and the Drake Hotel, then north once more on the express highway of Lake Shore Drive. It was at the Chicago River...
When two Harvard students were injured in an automobile accident early Saturday morning returning from a North Shore debutante party, the perennial argument that Harvard boys should not be allowed to have autos was brought up anew. Although the fall season is an especially dangerous one due to the frequency of the coming-out dances, hardly a week goes by all year that some student is not injured in a serious crash...