Word: stoles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Southern traditions was nowhere more evident than in the quiet incredulity with which Henry Adams regarded the son of Robert Edward Lee who was his classmate in the '50s. And the 19th Century was on its last legs in more than a chronological sense when Alice Lee stole up into the gallery of the old gymnasium because her fiance, Theodore Roosevelt (Class of 1880) wanted her to see him box a classmate...
After Dr. Conant had adjourned the meeting "until the year 2036," President-of-the-Day Lowell stole the show by dramatically crying: "All those who believe that the world will still be in existence 2,000 years hence, and that the universities will still be here...
...Alfred Dreyfus was the best-known prisoner ever to be confined on Devil's Island, the best-known fugitive is a gaunt, grizzled onetime French newshawk named Rene Belbenoit, who in 1921 broke into the Chateau de Bel AH near Paris and stole the necklace of the Countess of Entre-meuse. Sentenced to Guiana for eight years at hard labor, he escaped and was recaptured four times. He met Novelist Blair Niles on her visit to the colony. She was able to glean from his story enough material for two books which made them both famed...
Three major difficulties stood in the way. First was that the Dallas Exposition comes right on top of two World's Fairs, Chicago's and San Diego's. Dallas stole their thunder. The Dallas Fair buildings are in a style reminiscent of the Century of Progress, but not quite so modernistic and spiced with a Mexican flavor. Indirect lighting on a grand scale is provided. The approach (admission 50?) is past a 300-ft. lagoon, flanked by a Transportation building (emphasis on oil as motive power) and a Hall of Electricity, to a great State of Texas...
...hour and a half later a silent, dejected figure clumped up the Harvard Square subway station, walked down to Winthrop House, and stole into his room. He wouldn't speak to his two companions for a week...