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Word: streets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which supplies water for the city-owned plant was dangerously low. Where four inches of rain had fallen last October, this October fell less than one inch. Abandoned private steam plants were prepared for operation. Housewives had to be told to cut down on current. Only every other street light burned at night. Electrical signs were shut off. The lights on the tower of the city hall went dark for the first time in 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Profane Proposal | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Professor R. E. Rogers '09, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has consented to read selections from the speeches of Secretary Mellon and President Hoover which were made in relation to this film. Tickets for the performance may be secured from Professor William Emerson, at 491 Boylston Street, by application in person or by letter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Architects to See Film of National Capital | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

...sale of an obscene book to a member of the Watch and Ward Society brought heavy fines and prison terms to James A. DeLacey, manager of the Dunster House bookshop, and Joseph Sullivan, clerk in the shop, which is located on South street. DeLacey was fined $800 and sentenced to four months in the house of correction by Judge Stone of the Cambridge court. Sullivan was fined $200 and sentenced to two weeks in the house of correction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster House Bookshop Head and Clerk Sentenced to Jail for Selling Obscene Literature--Watch and Ward Complained | 11/26/1929 | See Source »

...land at Broadway and 168th Street, New York City, where the new Medical Center has been built with the alliance of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and the Presbyterian Hospital was a gift of Mr. Harkness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINANCES HOUSE PLAN | 11/26/1929 | See Source »

...estimable elder of the Vagabond whose residence is most generally reported in the neighborhood of Mount Auburn Street took occasion the other day during the course of his annual homily on the Yale game to deprecate the excellent opportunity afforded earnest scholars by the pre-Christmas lull which is about to set in. Fully remembering the ring of this scoffing laugh, the Vagabond nevertheless clears his throat moderately and points to the lecture offerings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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