Word: solider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sketch this second design adequately requires a good-sized map of the U. S. The sketch can begin almost anywhere-on the coast of Maine, in Florida, or at the bottom tip of Texas. There is an irregular quadrilateral of it in North Carolina. A vast, nearly solid mass of it spreads east, west and south from Chicago. There are patches of it in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri. It almost blots out New Jersey and New Hampshire, parts of Pennsylvania and Kentucky. It is the design of the fields of operation of the public utility companies over which Samuel Tnsull, financial...
Last month came more news of Antioch patronage by General Motors. Charles Franklin Kettering, vice president of General Motors, president of General Motors Corp., had given the college a $350,000 science building which was to have 200 rooms, laboratories, a subbasement carved into solid rock for experiments requiring constant temperature, continual forced ventilation...
...plans Architect Wright has "overturned the pyramids and lengthened their lines perpendicularly." Thus, at the top the towers are much larger than at the bottom. Each tower rests on a gigantic concrete pedestal; each is supported by a core of solid concrete through the centre. Architect Wright explained that his scheme was specially good for a crowded city because there space is more valuable the higher it is off the ground...
...every play and made the majority of the tackles for his team. Devens too turned in a good performance. The powerful Sophomore halfback was the only Crimson ball-carrier who could make any progress and it was only by dint of sheer strength that he plunged through the solid masses which confronted...
...progress of the college has been marked by the irregularity of its development. Struggling through the early years of the last century it seemed for a time destined to be a little backwoods academy, without distinction of any kind, confining its scope to the education of the solid yeomanry of New Hampshire. About the size of Amherst and Williams, but without their academic prestige, Dartmouth was well on the way to obscurity...