Word: macadam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ivison S. Macadam, first president and one of the organizers of the National Union of Students of England, will speak tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Phillips Brooks House on "Politics of the European Student...
...Macadam is now honorary vice president and director of commissions of the Confederations Internationale des Etudiants, of which he was one of the founders. He is also chairman of the Travel Commission, which annually sends from 2000 to 3000 students to various countries of the world as guests of these countries...
Mile after mile over rutted alkali, on concrete, and through the brown ooze at the side of macadam, plodded the marathoners of Mr. C. C. ("Cash and Carry") Pyle who has offered $25,000 to the runner making the best time from California to New York. All along the route runners dropped out and went home. Three quit at Chandler, Okla., 1,543 miles from the start. They said they didn't believe Pyle had $25,000. When Oklahoma City gave $5,000 to Pyle, Ralph Scott, onetime manager of Red Grange, attached it. The Chamber of Commerce then...
...bridle path which is to be laid out will serve as a short cut for riders in reaching the Brookline bridle path with which it will connect. In the past they have been forced to ride over macadam roads in order to reach it, so permission was granted by Professor Ames for the construction...
...quickly, Super-Reporter Lewis was brought forward to make observations beyond the power of liners," workaday wrote hacks. the "Dozens of air Super-Reporter, "with their vast wings of corrugated metal, monstrous as pterodactyls, field." wallowed on the macadam field...