Word: steams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alumni laden with thermos bottles and steamer rugs, return to Cambridge each year to find that dynamite and the steam-shovel have obliterated more and more memories, and that steel and stone have combined to cover them as completely as if they had never been. With the present ambitious and comprehensive building program of the University, surprises are plentiful for the graduates...
...scoring chances; the Sophomores lost an excellent opportunity in the first quarter when the 1927 line stiffened after yielding ground steadily before a strong attack, and then broke through to block a Sophomore drop-kick. Late in the second period, the 1929 team, with its backfield functioning in steam-roller style, pushed the pigskin to the Senior 15-yard stripe, and seemed to be headed for a sure touchdown, when the whistle ended the half...
...Author. Enoch Arnold Bennett has led an industrious, unspectacular life since being born 59 years ago among the potteries of Staffordshire. Everything interests him, especially humble, "uninteresting" people. His published books and plays, persistently captivating, now number over two score. He has a French wife, steam yacht...
Little bands of men roaming over the earth, poking in pits, caves, quarries, mounds, buttes for vestiges of the creatures that roamed the earth before them. . . Bigger bands of men examining maps, bringing steam shovels, excavating a tooth, a bracelet, a whole dead civilization , . . Millions of dollars spent in digging every year . . . Following are significant efforts and exhumations of the past two months...
...such situation, the shotgun prescription has been-keep all railroads operating; the I. C.C. guarantees a "fair return" of 5 3/4% on income to all; the I. C. C. must "foster and preserve in full vigor" the steam roads; profiting lines must yield parts of their over-earnings to bolster up their weak sister lines (Transportation Act of 1920). The 300 astute gentlemen at Dallas awaited Mr. Loree's blast at this transportation doctrine. He told them bluntly what was what...