Word: subs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some incompleted or newly-begun projects are: 1) A monument to poet Longfellow in Grande Pré, Nova Scotia, scene of Evangeline; 2) a monument to Commodore Perry, near Erie, Pa., scene of the Battle of Lake Erie; 3) a movement to turn into a National Museum the Sub-Treasury Building, Wall Street, where Washington took oath of office; 4) a scheme for building a paved highway from New York to San Francisco, flanked all the way by monuments, as a memorial to the Americans who died...
Triumphant virtue thumps splendidly in the chaste breast of Johanna Oakley, his faithful hoopskirted light-of-love; the gallant thorax of Colonel Jeffrey of the Indian Army, confidant and sub-hero. Thirteen other characters, broadly "in period,' pad out the piece to bursting...
...meeting of the Committee of Imperial Defense was summoned at London to consider the building of a sub-Channel tunnel to connect Britain and France...
Gratification was expressed that the status of librarians was recently changed by the Personnel Classification Board in Washington from "clerical" to "professional" and "sub-professional"; that 25% salary increases for Government librarians went into effect on the second day of the Conference...
Brookwood Military Cemetery in London, where 428 U. S. soldiers lie buried, was officially handed over to the U. S. Government by its British owners. The Channel Tunnel question, recently revived, is shortly to be brought up in the House of Commons. The approximate cost of building the sub-channel tunnel from Dover to Calais was computed at about $130,000,000. Although Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes is to go to England this month in a strictly private capacity, as a guest of the English Bar, much political significance has been attached to his visit, which will coincide...