Word: terminus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time in the history of Harvard debating, the Debating Council will conduct a dual tour during the Spring recess, which will have as its southern terminus, Atlanta, Georgia, and will extend as far west as Grennell, Iowa. The two teams, each composed of three men, will leave at the same time, and will be gone during the week of April...
...Many a Democrat had regarded the Smith candidacy of 1928 as a test of what might be in 1932. Among more than 4,000,000 votes, the Hoover margin of 100,000 over Smith in New York was not numerically enormous. But psychologically it loomed as the terminus of the brief, embattled Smith leadership in the national Democracy. It silenced any reproaches that might have been uttered against the party-faithless South. The victories in Massachusetts and Rhode Island only intensified the disappointment in New York. If those people had voted for him, and if arch-Republican Connecticut had come...
Imperial Airways, the only organization in Britain operating regular air routes, is to be subsidized by the Government until 1939, when it is expected to pay for itself. Delhi, it was learned last week, is to be pushed as a new Indian terminus. Thus is success rewarded, for last year Imperial Airways carried 52,000 passengers 2,500,000 miles without accident to a single passenger...
...rumors whispered by the gentlemen ahead as one crosses the Yard. If all is to be believed, the Road to Rome has its other terminus under the awning that covers the steps of Memorial Hall. "Fair as a star", but more than one will be shining March 2. Greta of the round arms and tight curls will be there. What if it be difficult beforehand to find the leading men, or afterward to learn who were the lucky players in company-with? For it is written: As a prom committee sideshows, so shall it reap...
Twenty minutes past nine was the historic hour. Sullen but docile Russians had slowly gathered, drifting in to the number of 1,500. Now they waited, massed before the great railway terminus at Moscow, shuffling and shivering beneath cold stars, but ready to shout, "Long live Trotsky!" and then "Farewell! Farewell...