Word: started
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yacht Club building. The boats lined up under the railroad bridge. The Commodore fired a pistol. With a shrill spattering sound the boats streaked down the Hudson. As each passed the balcony its time was marked, because the Hudson is not broad enough for 133 little boats to start at the same time. Having fired his pistol, Commodore Eldridge motored to an airplane, flew to New York, waited for the winner. From Albany to Manhattan the Hudson River measures 132¼ mi. Railroad trains cover the distance in three hours. By air it takes 90 min. The winner of last...
...know what it requires in fields. Bad example is England's Croydon field. It was remodeled and enlarged just a year ago. Now it must be altered again at great cost. Airport ideas presented at Manhattan included underground passages to holes where planes would be waiting ready to start, great landing platforms over steamship piers, and a community arrangement around a circular field, its buildings rising in height as they recede from the centre. Next month at Cleveland, engineers will meet with architects, city planners, and flyers in an attempt to design best types of airports for various services...
...Crimson enters the contest with a slate of two victories, one defeat, and a single tie. To start the season Harvard triumphed over the Alumni team, but during the spring recess the Crimson stickmen were trounced by Union College. Cornell met defeat at Harvard's hands last Saturday, and in a practice game on Tuesday the University tied with the Boston Lacrosse Club aggregation...
Casting of the play will occur in the near future in order that the actors may have the summer in which to learn their parts. Rehearsals will start in September. Roles will be assigned by competition the date and place of which will be announced shortly...
With the acquisition of a separate room for the housing of the modern collection the facilities for the study and appreciation of poetry at Harvard receive a substantial strengthening. A start has been made in the right direction, for of all forms of literature poetry most of all forms of literature poetry most of all requires comfortable and quiet surroundings for its appreciation. The hurly burly of the main Widener reading room with its scraping chairs and hoarse whispers or the deadening fastness of the stacks are equally inappropriate for the sort of pleasure to be found in the reading...