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Squash courts in Leverett House caused a great deal of unexpected trouble when it was found that the wood backing the rear walls of two of the courts is improperly cured, and has caused the timbers to swell and buckle. The back frame is made of square timbers of about three inches in thickness, set up vertically and horizontally about nine inches apart. On swelling, the horizontal tim- bers forced the vertical ones out, caused the whole wall to buckle, and become unfit for play, and necessitated a complete rebuilding of the wall by the University Maintenance Department. Investigation reveals...
Further faults in the Biological building were revealed when it was found that one of the floors in a room on the ground level had to be relaid three times before it was satisfactory. Each time more water seeped in causing the parquetry to swell and buckle necessitating new flooring. It is believed that the University had to sustain the expense of this unexpected repairing...
...some friends down in New Orleans and I asked them if they liked songs that were a bit--well you know what I mean. They said they didn't like 'em so well, but when I asked them about Miss West, they said they thought that she was just swell. Yes, she sure is an amazin' person...
...named Frederick Lewis Allen catalogued the events of a changing American from 1919 through the 29th of October 1929, and titled his book "Only yesterday." Some three years later a movie man out West got hold of a copy and thought he might make a swell movie out of it. Strangely enough, he was almost right. The film at the R. K. O. Keith's justifies much of its ballyhoo...
...Newark, N. J., excited Chauncey Harris, Negro, told police: "A big shiny car stops near me. A woman and a man in swell clothes get out. The man digs a hole. The woman takes a baby out of a suitcase, kisses it, puts it in the hole. The man throws dirt on it." Twelve police-men and detectives, three taxicabs full of reporters sped to the vacant lot indicated by Chauncey Harris, dug, disinterred a black kitten...