Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beacon St., Boston, who died recently, leaves the balance of a residuary fund, over and above certain gifts amounting to more than $200,000, to Harvard College, the Museum of Fine Arts, and Massachusetts General Hospital in equal shares. The money bequeathed to the University is for the use of the Botanical Garden and of the Medical School...
Pope Pius XI: "As many people know, I was, before my elevation, wiry, supple. I walked many miles a day and often climbed upon the mountains. Last week I showed that I still have the use of my legs by climbing up into the Dome of St. Peter's, a feat rarely accomplished by any of my predecessors, obese or otherwise. Although a strong wind was blowing, I sat for about an hour in an armchair on the balcony, watching some workmen build the new Vatican seminary...
Railroads have begun to make use of the motor industry, whose inroads on freight and passenger traffic railroad officials have regarded with more or less apathy. President Patrick E. Crowley of the New York Central told the Toledo (Ohio) Chamber of Commerce how great those inroads have been. Railroads operate over more than a quarter-million miles of track which they have had to lay down and maintain. Motors run over three million miles of roads supported by taxation. Some of the $360,000,000 of taxes ($1,000,000 a day) which U.S. railroads pay yearly go to maintain...
Many of the original features of Dunster House are now preserved in the present building. Many of the old doors are still in use, and there are large timbers and planks one and a half feet wide in the second floor...
According to figures issued by the Department of Physical Education at Wadsworth last night, tennis is the most popular sport with the entering class, 183 men electing to use the courts this fall. Crew wins second place with 174 candidates, and football comes third with...