Word: sites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill providing tor the sale of a site on S Street, Washington, for $185,000 and the purchase of another for a new French Embassy at 15th and Euclid Streets for the same amount was introduced into the Chamber of Deputies. It was explained that the opportunity to make the exchange came "as a favor" from the owner (Mrs. John B. Henderson) of the new site, which is far more valuable than...
...July 16, for a two years' Arctic voyage. He plans to coast along the Greenland shore, studying terrestrial magnetism, and will winter at Cape Sabine, returning in the fall of 1924. Under the auspices of the National Geographic Society, he will erect a bronze tablet on the site of the old Greeley expedition camp, where 18 men perished...
...hard to see what good will result if the skull of Pocahontas is dug up from a quiet resting place at Gravesend. The site of Troy may well reveal historical secrets. Luxor may give up relies, and the buried city of Herculaneum may contain valuable manuscripts yet undiscovered. There is still plenty of chance for further archacologizing. But why should a man wish to dig up his supposed ancestors! If it be merely to test the efficacy of the curse to fall on the desecrator of her grave, he might well wait until Sir Conan Doyle has definitely proved...
Jack Dempsey: " I set up my training camp for my fight with Gibbons at Great Falls, Mont., on the site of the first brewery established there. Its picturesque ruins are beside my training ring...
Less hard-headed were the views attributed to Mr. Ford in the Michigan State Senate, where he was quoted as planning to build a factory on every small waterpower site he can obtain in that state, and thus give winter employment to farmers at city wages, which all comes back to the fact that running the Ford Motor Company is one thing and courting the farmer vote is another. Mr. Ford is undoubtedly the world's premier automotive manufacturer. As the savior of the American farmer, however, his practical efficiency is yet to be established...