Word: slidings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the students who have visited Quebec, the fine triple-track toboggan slide which extends from the shoulder of the old Citadel and runs past the Chatean Frontenac affords the thrill of a lifetime. However less violent sports of skating on the lake or rink and tramping over snow-bound plains on snowshoes also attract a large share of the visitors. Curling likewise is available for those who enjoy...
...would halt; without the other that progress would be deprived of meaning. In the colleges, where both branches of knowledge are harbored, the cleavage should be minimized. Departmental boundaries should represent merely administrative divisions, not irreconcilable units. Yet professors of chemistry still confuse culture with laziness; humanists still regard slide-rules and test-tubes with contempt...
...With slide and motion picture in the Eliot House dinning hall last night. Thomas Barbour '06. Professor of Zoology, told a trip through Kruger National Park, wild animal preserve in South Africa...
...Best-dressed" seniors at America's leading colleges are definitely against the clumsy old-fashioned fly. Though they prefer the smooth flat slide-fastened fly, they are also opposed to the uncovered zipper which displays a strip of bare metal. Kover-Zip, the invisible seamline closure demanded by good taste, has won approval in college from coast to coast. Here are a few typical comments on Kover-Zip by college they selected as "best-dressed...
Completed three years ago at a cost of $1,250,000, the Embassy buildings, with their bases of steel gridirons, are positively earthquake proof. Let Tokyo heave and they might slide down the hill, but instead of collapsing they would "float" on the wavering sea of earth. L-shaped, the uncollapsible Embassy home is faced with white stucco, has a dining room in the left wing of the L, a living room in the right wing, a State staircase in the crotch. Of marble is the Ambassador's outdoor swimming pool and he may refresh himself and guests in three...