Word: tracted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the Great South Bay, canals flowing under pile-set villas, a fleet of gondolas imported from Venice, a huge swimming pool-these were the particulars of a Long Island real estate scheme announced last week by the Meister Builders, Inc. The site has been chosen, a 365 acre tract at Lyndhurst and Copiaque...
...goes the aftermath of the hysterical Scopes trial (TIME, May 18, 25, June 1 et seq) The sacred enterprise is to be situated on a 26-acre tract over the road from the house in which William Jennings Bryan breathed his last. . . Mrs. Bryan will be furnished an abode on the college grounds; will spend part of each year therein. . . . "A Prominent New Yorker" is sought for the chair of a national advisory committee...
...American Society of Teachers of Dancing. He, a graduate of one of the Russian Imperial ballet schools, onetime ballet master of the government theater at Odessa, is the founder of the famed Chalif Russian Normal School of Dancing, Manhattan ?an establishment which has proved as remunerative as a tract of Florida real estate. Chalif is plump, prosperous, vigorous. His face invariably displays the bland amiability of one who is pleasantly stupefied by recent exertion. Once Pavlowa saw him perform...
...most of those emotions himself, and whether he was jeering wickedly at God and Man or offering to marry the woman whom the court thought too soiled even to take an oath on the Bible, he carried the audience breathlessly along with him. The play is labelled "A Religious Tract in Dramatic Form", but although the description is just enough, it ought not to be allowed to prejudice anyone. The "religious tract" is a rare combination of uproarious wit, and preaching which is sometimes in deadly earnest, sometimes more than half in jest, and sometimes you can't quite...
...White Company will begin filling on Monday, preparatory to building a road to the center of the tract from the easterly corner. The filling will go on for about two weeks, but will in no way hold up the progress of the excavating. It is planned to break ground for the new buildings within the next few weeks...