Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ended the "state of siege" and "martial law" which has been maintained since the War in a ring of Rumanian territory 35 miles wide encircling "the country just inside the frontier. But, prudent, the Peasant Prime Minister established a new 10-mile wide zone of "martial law" along the Russo-Rumanian frontier, since most Rumanians fear attack by the Bolshevist "Red Army...
...speaker was Dr. Franklin Martin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Gorgas Memorial Institute. He spoke of the late Col. William Crawford Gorgas, medical expert of the U. S. Army, whose prophylactic approach to the swamps, cisterns and gutters of the Canal Zone and Havana meant the annihilation of mosquitoes. Since in those places the buzzing, spiralling mosquito brought yellow fever, other ravaging tropical plagues, the extermination of the insect was a mighty mission. Therefore is Col. Gorgas' memory revered in lands which before his coming were "fastnesses of death...
...Though this Division three plans of improvement will be carried into effect. The first is the adoption of a progressive Signal Control system. To facilitate this Boston has been divided into four zones each zone mapped out according to the amount of traffic occurring in it. The first unit includes Boylston Tremont and Washington streets and will have the new tricolor signals installed this winter. The City Council has granted $125,000 for this one zone. The other three areas will be completed in the order of their importance...
Next came Putnam's pretty 40 yard toss into the waiting arms of Burns who was standing in the end zone. These plays were a marked improvement in the matter of forward passes, and seem to indicate that the coaches are attempting to develop an effective aerial attack. Putnam's third attempt for extra point was perfect, making the score...
...contest in touch football, which first reared its irregular-shaped head last year. Harvard's defeat of Brown at that time came as tidbit for those who prefer the deft to the desperate in sport, and who think that a lateral followed by a snap pass into the flat zone is a more beautiful thing than the temporary ataxia of the left side of the opposing line...