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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only the temporary iron tower for pouring cement remained standing, swaying and lashing wildly, while a single workman clung to the topmost pinnacle, scared but safe. A passing trolley car was derailed by falling chunks, and passengers tumbled out higgelty piggelty?some gravely cut and wounded. Meanwhile, shrieks & groans ascended from the fallen building's debris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Scalawag's Cement | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...live again for you, my dear general, the horror of last night? At dusk the enemy laid down a barrage of kants. All night long we could see shafts of flame biting the midnight sky--the big goethes. At dawn, the tower where we are huddled was schlegelled...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

Senior class team: Ambrose Cray '29, l. e: Robert Reinhart '29, l. t. Elliot Marple '30, l. g.: H. B. Manger '29, c: J. F. Poland '29, r. g.: W. S. Tower, Jr., '29, r. t: F. G. Kraetser, Jr., '29, r. e: Stewart Boal '29, q. b: A. G. Whitney '29, l. h. b.: R. F. Mahady '29, r. h. b: J. J. Antonuccio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIORS ARE DEFEATED BY 1931 FOOTBALL TEAM | 10/17/1928 | See Source »

Senior Class team: E. H. Steiner '29, l.e.; Robert Reinhart '29, l.t.; Elliot Marple '30, l.g.; H. B. Manger '29, c.; J. F. Poland '29, r.g.; W. S. Tower, Jr., '29, r.t.; Ambrose Cray '29, r.e.; Stewart Boal '29, q.b.; A. G. Whitney '29, l.h.b.; R. F. Mahady '29, r.h.b.; D. T. Fuller...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 10/10/1928 | See Source »

...October afternoons there is a dim smoke-blue haze lying mystically over the regions up the Charles. The Boston College tower rises almost old-world through the enchantment of diffused sunlight and even the Brighton abattoir deludes one into a vague resentment against its vociferous detractors. The passing of slim, long, smoothly-swinging eights, joyful with the leisurely power of an early season paddle but intensifies the easy rhythm of the scene, while an artistic contrast is afforded by the soft pad-padding of the occasional cross-country candidate. Through the trees the glimpses of the fields persuade one that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A HEALTH TO KING CHARLES | 10/9/1928 | See Source »

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