Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...million, replied the Senior quickly, and if they were taken down, all of them from their eleven miles of shelves, and placed book upon book, end to end, they would form an unbroken wall around the Yard Fourteen feet high, and one foot thick...
Everything, down at Soldiers Field, is being pointed toward building up a well rounded squad that will be strong in all departments. Hitherto there has been a feeble push where the offense should have been and a hole-filled wall where the defense should have held the fort. The defense has certainly proved the stronger of the two in the games so far, but plenty of criticism could be applied to the number of Dartmouth, Princeton, and Army men who have been getting into the Crimson backfield at the snap of the ball...
Some ingenious persons covered the John Harvard statue last night with a coat of tar. The same persons, presumably, marked a large '87 on the wall at the entrance of the chapel...
...Wall Street could sympathize with the wastepaper dealers. Losses and burdensome contracts were an old story to its brokers. Month after month the New York Stock Exchange has dragged through one dreary day after another. A million-share session makes front-page news. With many a membership pressing for sale, Stock Exchange seats last week sold down to $70,000?only $2,000 above...
That historic event was foreshadowed last spring when the venerable Committee on Publicity was uprooted and a onetime managing editor of the Wall Street Journal was made a member. Not until last week, however, did the Governors hire a pressagent. He was Joseph Stagg Lawrence, 38, author, economist and an associate editor of the Review of Reviews...