Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...location is only temporary, but even at that it is far more convenient for the Freshmen than the old site. Smith and Standish Halls are just across the street from it, and Gore and McKinlock are but a short distance away...
...coordination and effortless skill to be seen on a tennis court. They are of a type to keep an opponent away from the net as much as possible and simply wear him down. On the defense he is if anything faster than Cochet and his endurance is little short of marvelous. Whether he has magic touch which seems to characterize the Frenchman's play is not sure; he has not met enough worthy opposition; perhaps he would fall as other's have before the defense that is an offense, before the steady brillance and brilliant steadiness of the master...
...gift of several hundred thousand dollars were hovering on the horizon's edge, might not this sum be better diverted to the interests of science, or architecture, or, in short, to some field more dependent upon the purse of the University than...
Birthday. Herbert George Wells, author (Mr. Britling Sees it Through, A Short History of the World, Men Like Gods); at Easton Glebe, Dunmow, Essex, England...
...Museum. Traveling through Sao Paulo with the purpose of establishing mor cordial relations with the local museums, Dr. Allen delivered several public lectures at the National Museum of Natural History and Archaeology of the state of Sao Paulo. Later he journeyed to the Instituto Butantan, where he delivered a short address to the staff. Sao Paulo is an agricultural state in which nearly three-fourths of the world's coffee is grown; the climate is also favorable to animal life and because of this fact, several species of poisonous reptiles abound there. With the purpose in view of reducing...