Word: trolleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first class, those that have already seen service during the last year two are dormitories and the other is the Bursar's office Lehman Hall. All three of them are built along Massachusetts Avenue in the Yard, with the purpose of shutting off from this sphere the noise of trolley cars and increasing automobile traffic on the Square, in other words, "the cloistering program" that President Lowell initiated two years ago. Lionel and Mower are the two dormitories built in the northwest corner of the Yard, and flanking Holden Chapel the first religious center of the University, on both sides...
...mostly aviation with a dash of farm relief thrown in (see THE PRESIDENCY, p. 5). Herbert Hoover has a brain that works in vast, sweeping programs. He showed Mr. Coolidge a plan for commercial aviation that made the Berlin-Byzantine-Bagdad railroad scheme look like the Toonerville Trolley. Mr. Coolidge approved...
...first clues in the printed list were not difficult. Hundreds followed them across Park Row from the Pulitzer Building into trolley cars, taxis and subways bound for Union Square (Broadway and 14th St.). On the way they puzzled this clue: "Symbolical term for a branch of the government (five-letter word...
...failure to provide adequate music with their meals, Yale freshmen last week shoved their supper dishes off the tables, bashed glassware, chairs, trays, butter, jams and desserts in all directions, shuffled out into Berkeley Oval and lighted bonfires, scampered into New Haven streets ringing fire alarms, pulling down trolley poles, pushing automobiles from their parking places, nagging, taunting, thumb-nosing at policemen...
Surrounded by dreary houses, blackened by the soot that creeps into the air from factory chimneys and shaken at intervals by sluggish trolley cars, there stands in Cleveland a building known as Slovenian Hall-rendezvous for exiled Serbians, Croatians and Slovenians. Last week this hall blazed with light and wit. The Slovenians of Cleveland entertained their most widely celebrated countryman, Ivan Mestrovic, sculptor. Ivan Zorman, spokesman for Cleveland Slovenians, was toastmaster; other prominent citizens-John Gornik, Frank Tomic, Rev. George Petrovic, Bojeslav Mihalievic, W. M. Milliken- spoke. In the Cleveland Museum of Art, Sculptor Mestrovic's work stood...