Word: vistas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adams House embodies more unique advantages than any other unit of the House Plan. Its central location, while not possessing the vista enjoyed by the Houses on the river's edge, affords a convenience to all the activities of the college that is unequalled. The Widener Library, for instance, is only a stone's throw from Adams House, whereas from several of the other houses it takes three times as long to got to the Library as it does to get to Boston...
...commuter organization has no intention of antagonizing University authorities. The executive council declared, but has been created in order to raise the morale of the commuters as a group and to open a new vista of college life for them. To bring about the desired results, the council hopes to procure a club house and thereby mold the commuters into a more cohesive body...
...shrewd move, for Mr. Ickes and Mr. Farley have clashed on many points; Mr. Ickes' investigators have been tireless in investigating PWA bids. It was calculated not only to find scandal ready-made but to cause a split in the Cabinet. Regular Democrats looked down a long vista of trouble with Huey Long hammering at their Party manager. Yet that day, Huey's daily denunciation went astray. When he rose to begin, Democratic Leader Robinson agreed to the demand for any data Mr. Ickes might have about Mr. Farley. Promptly Long's resolution was passed...
ROBERT A. DOZIER Rio Vista, Calif...
...call it bottomless?" Not truth but mystery lies at the bottom of the well. Recorded history goes down only a little way. "Where then do they lie in time, the beginnings of human civilization? How old is it? . . . We have only to enquire, to conjure up a whole vista of time-coulisses opening out infinitely, as in mockery." But there are records which go back far beyond history's short memory, "pious abbreviations" of real events. "Certainly it becomes clearer and clearer that the dream memory of man, formless but shaping itself ever anew after the manner of sagas...