Word: slating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...building will be four stories high, the first story being granite, and the other three red brick, with a slate roof. The dimensions will be approximately 130 feet by 56 feet. The front of the building will have four large wood pilasters of about the same size as those in the rear, and two smaller pilasters, one on each side of the door. The style of architecture will be Georgian, and will conform to a large degree with the buildings in the Yard...
...Butte sees in Davis a creature of the red octopus, with the scarlet tentacles, that lives in Wall Street. . . . The 'great open spaces' know him (Wheeler) as a political two-gun man with a cold, slate-colored...
...great in personality as he was in sympathy. He was equally at home by the side of a black-faced slate pl:cker, in the office of a captain of great industries and in the council room of the President of the United States. To one President ? Theodore Roosevelt ? he was a loyal, constant friend, a tower of strength and a flaming messenger of the Roosevelt gospel of the square deal. No one in the anthracite region needs to be told the story of that long, close friendship ? a friendship fruitful of prosperity and peace to this...
...some indulgent genie could wipe the first inning off yesterday's slate, Bowdoin would have to its credit a victory over Harvard, and moundsman Robinson might have his hat in the baseball Hall of Fame reserved for pitchers of no-hit games. For the last eight innings the Bowdoin twirler had the Crimson eating out of his hand hitless and well nigh runless; but since he had no magic lamp to rub, the first inning must stand, leaving Harvard a 6 to 3 victor and Robinson not an immortal, but only a defeated pitcher...
...Freshman basketball team, with a record of two straight defeats to wipe off its slate, will play the New Hampshire State 1927 quintet at 3 o'clock this afternoon at the Freshman Athletic Building...