Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Riding through the snows near Fort Tejon in the Tehachapi Range, about 65 mi. northwest of Los Angeles one day last week, an Indian cowhand espied against the white wall of a canyon a black smudge. Hundreds of searchers afoot, scores of planes had been hunting for nearly a week for that black smudge. Guessing what it was, the Indian turned back because he "didn't want to see any dead people." Others whom he directed to the canyon found the smudge to be the bodies of the pilot and seven passengers in the burned wreckage of a Century-Pacific...
...fight began as a conflict of personalities. There was less reason for Amadeo Peter Giannini and Elisha Wralker to get along than there was for them to differ. If you like and respect Elisha Walker, who is always neatly dressed and who was born to society and Wall Street, who gives an impression of careful, methodical methods, you may distrust the attitudes of Mr. Giannini. If you like "A. P.," a big blustery fellow who does not give a hang how his clothes hang, who has known manual labor, who gives a jovial shout when he sees you coming down...
...Common Room wall paper, with its scenes of the American Revolution dominates the Exhibition. The architects Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott, through C. A. Coolidge '81. Associate of Lowell House, have loaned two fine pencil drawings of the House. An early engraving of Harvard College in the exhibition is similar to the one used for the china of the House...
Fortnight ago it looked as if the Glass Bill might pass Congress without serious difficulty. Democrats stood solidly behind the little Virginian. Insurgents were for anything that would discomfort Wall Street. But that was before the big bankers of the land had read the bill's text, made their outraged feelings known to Washington. The Treasury scowled a scowl of disapproval; Governor Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board looked displeased. Last week it was clear that the Glass Bill was scheduled for a major operation-by-amendment...
Harbin. While all these things were happening in other places paunchy General Honjo and his troops were still in Manchuria and as busy as usual. Chinese resistance right down to the Great Wall was broken. Last week Japanese forces swung about and moved north toward Harbin. By so doing they threatened another international crisis quite as acute as that at Shanghai. The Chinese Eastern Railway, with headquarters at Harbin, is Soviet-controlled. Many times Soviet troops have been stationed at Harbin as a "police force." But Russia was not ready for war with Japan last week. There were...