Word: sites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Long Island City, N. Y., across the square from a courthouse where an adultress and a corset salesman were on trial for murder, a small man appeared at dawn trundling a wheelbarrow full of lumber. He selected a site, began sawing, hammering, whistling...
Rectangular in shape, the building will have a front 88 feet long on Mount Auburn Street and 38 feet long on Holyoke Street. Building on this site will necessitate tearing down the old Dunster House Book Shop and the white frame building which had been the home of the Advocate and the Harvard Dramatic Club. These buildings are two of the oldest edifices in Cambridge. Both buildings contain many unique features, each as old hand made doors and board floors containing planks 18 inches wide...
...water reached a depth of four feet; one estimate placed 2,000,000 Arkansas acres under water. The entire town of Columbus, Ky. (pop. 654) was abandoned. Columbus, Ky., though hardly more than a village, was founded 105 years ago and at one time was considered as possible site for the national capital. Levees at Memphis, Tenn., were populous with slimy, writhing snakes, flooded out of their swampy homes...
...model Rolls-Royce-the "Phantom"-appeared last week at the Springfield, Mass., Rolls-Royce U. S. factory site. It has six brakes. 55 points for lubrication (all operated by single motion from the driver's seat.) and a silent, reciprocating engine of one-third more power than the present "Forty-Fifty" Rolls-Royce. These represent the first distinct changes in Rolls-Royce models in 15 years, said Chairman Henry J. Fuller...
...France the difficulty is diametrically opposite. One M. Vantel, writing in "Cipano" finds that cook and dentist, nouveaux and clerk are all wearing the Legion of Honour. The Legion, it seems has become no more exclusive than a Long Island home site or a Miami country Club. M. Vantel suggests a sort of suicide by which members of the legion will voluntarily retire "for the glory of France." Or they might draw lots, or play eenie-meenie-minie...