Word: along
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese casualties, lines of demoralized troops fleeing for the interior, looting as they went. In Dalai Nor several hundred terrified coal miners took refuge at the bottom of a shaft before the Soviet advance. Soviet troops stopped the pumps, drowned the lot. Crowds of refugees gathered at all stations along the Chinese Eastern Railway. Special trains chuffed 'back and forth, rushing Chinese citizens to safety, making no effort to collect fares...
...like you, young man. I think we'll get along first rate together." He arose and as he departed took out a wad of bills, flipped five $100 notes to the painter...
...while not emphatic in their disagreement with the architects, believe that some simpler and smaller tower would be more in keeping with the rest of the new building. When the general sentiment about the new tower is so well defined, it would be a pity to have it built along its present lines without some consideration of a possible change. Certainly with the house hardly more than four feet above the ground there is ample time left for revision...
...Harding '31. Harvard end who was seriously injured in the Yale game Saturday, was said to be "getting along fine" by Dr. T. K. Richards '15 last night...
Scheme No. 2 involved William T. Kemper, for some years Federal Receiver of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railroad, purchased last year by Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé. Charges against Receiver Kemper were that in 1924 when stockholders thought the situation hopeless, he learned of oil discoveries along the line, of improved operating conditions, of terms in the Santa Fé deal that would make Orient gold convertible notes worth more than face value. Then, according to charges, he bought more than $1,000,000 of these notes at from 10˘ to 25˘ on a dollar, within a few months sold them...