Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Long Island, on the estate of Mrs. Evelyn Marshall Field, Weber was confronted with the side of a ravine upon which to lay out his forecourt. The ravine was filled in and now, upon what was once scraggly woodland, reposes the well-planned estate complete with shady trees and green shrubbery...
...only were the British guns inaccurate, but the bullets bounced from side to side in the barrels," said Mr. Haven, noted fire-arms expert, in a lecture sponsored by the Harvard Memorial Society...
...heard by a science concentrator, who is hoping for a B.S. if he can persuade the University that his Latin is not good enough for a B.A., deserves passing mention. Two Freshmen were rowing singles along the farther side of the river. Several workmen were swinging shovels, and two, seeing the rowers, stopped and mopped their brows. "Say, fellows," they called, "we used to go to college once. We both got degrees from M.I.T. Now look at us." "Yeah, look at you," one of the rowers shouted back. 'You've got jobs. What do you think we're doing? Rowing...
...believe all these stories you read in the daily papers, most of them are just propaganda gotten up by one side or the other. I certainly ought to know for I was in the front line with a machine-gun battalion at the seige of Teruel and drove an ammunition truck with supplies at the Madrid front...
Contrasting conditions with those related by two Loyalist deserters who recently landed in Boston, Bangs felt that the aid of Germany and Italy on the Rebel side made things pretty nice. "Food! Good Lord what meals: fresh vegetables, plenty of meat, mmmmm!" and he continued to tell of feasts that would cause even the palate of a Lucius Beebe to water. There was one trouble, however, and that they only got little more than a pint of milk a day, but Bangs seemed to feel that the wines, especially the new spring wine from the Barcelona region, more than made...