Word: transporter
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...point. When the College was first founded, Back Bay was a narrow neck of land lined with marshes, and the water between Boston and Newtowne (Cambridge) was a river instead of a bay. Travelers in those day did not have the convenience of a bridge; their only means of transport was a primitive cable ferry, for which a small fee was charged. By its original chanter, the Commonwealth granted to the College the right to collect these fees, which became its chief source of revenue. Nearly two centuries later, when the bridge was built, that income...
...must also use one's judgement in going to the right place to take a picture. During the war, when I was in New York taking photographs of the wounded who were coming over on transports, I was able to scoop the other photographers on the pictures of the first of the returning wounded of the Y. D. Division by following a hunch and going after a transport that came in the night and docked at Hoboken...
...mOTOR TRANSPORT CORPS...
...foot preparations for an experiment that will prove of great interest to all educators -- namely the transformation of the little-known college of Antioch into a sort of super trade-school or college of practical business. Mr. Arthur IC. Morgan, who has devised the scheme, intends to transport a number of manufacturing concerns shops and business houses to the college, making them part of the regular equipment. The entire conduct of the place is to be in the hands of the students, who will work in shifts and will divide their time between these occupations and the usual college studies...
...must squeeze a "philosophy" out of essays, you can obtain very satisfactory doctrine for a true liberal in the present day. And his doctrine, as Samuel Johnson said of Dr. Blair's "is the best limited, the best expressed; there is the most warmth without fanaticism the most rational transport." VOLUMES CHOSEN FOR REVIEW IN THE CRIMSON'S CHRISTMAS BOOKSHELF December 18, 1920. OUTSTANDING PUBLICATIONS OF 1920. CLASS TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER Fiction. Main Street. Sinclair Lewis. Harcourt. Travel. White Shadows in the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien Century. Biography. Theodore Roosevelt, and Autobiography Scribners. Essays. Dame School of Experience. Samuel...