Word: somes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Some years ago a number of people interested in gardening asked the Corporation to conduct the Garden for horticultural objects, offering to pay the expenses involved, which the Corporation was glad to do so long as the cost was thus defrayed. After a while the Committee became weary of raising...
"In offering the portfolio of Minister of Foreign Affairs to Briand, Daladier is trying to strengthen the position of his party. The situation is one comparable to the return to power of Ramsay MacDonald in 1928, and the next three or four years should see some interesting developments in both...
"A woman once called up to ask for full details about the rock of Gibraltar-its weight, size, and height; and the most remarkable part of that story was that we were able to give them to her!" Thus answered Karl Dahlquist, for seven years in charge of the general...
"During the rush season of the year, which lasts from about a week before the first registration day to a time some days after the publication of the University Directory, two telephone lines are kept busy from the minute we open in the morning until long after five o'clock...
"One very common request comes from aunts and uncles of boys who they think just may be in Harvard, and if so, where do they live; all this expanded into a story telling much life history!" Just then the telephone rang and Mr. Dahlquist was sent searching through the files...