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...baron though he belonged to a Samurai (feudal sword bearer) family. In the past 30 years he has held diplomatic posts almost everywhere, but got his real leg up to greatness as Chief of the Telegraph Section of the Foreign Office, a key post because the holder has access to all Foreign Office codes & secrets, and secrets play a major role in the devious statecraft of Japan...
...main banking floor of the company's 23-story building running between Clark and La Salle Streets in Chicago. The central hall is entered by two wide stairways leading from the street floor, the walls flanked by mammoth columns topped by murals. The coupon department, U-shaped, gives access to the bank's customers on three sides. In the centre of the U is window No. 77, and behind this window customers could be sure to find Walter Wolf, manager of the department since 1927, trusted employe of the bank for 26 years. Last week Manager Wolf...
...just one along the bottom, from nose to tail, the Akron has three-one under the top of the envelope, the two others along the sides, about a quarter of the way up from the bottom. Through each keel frame runs a triangular catwalk, the upper one giving access to the safety release valves above the helium bags. The lower ones serve as corridors to the engine rooms, airplane hangar, crew quarters, galley, messrooms; leading forward to the mooring apparatus and aft to an emergency control car inside the lower...
...expansion, endowments, and publicity, it was not content to build ordinary buildings that with common efficiency would carry out the functions for which they were intended. Under the Yale hand, a chemistry laboratory became a Hampton Court palace; a gymnasium became a Norman Cathedral, well fortified from all access of light; fraternity houses and senior-society tombs were built as Attic temples, Saracenic strongholds. Tudor mansions, Venetian palaces, and sacred edifices of the classical revival. Every minor building became other-wordly, enchanting in its antique quaintness, its cumbersome and happy extravagance. The donors were tickled by the splendor, hardened business...
Since the closing of the gates to the Yard on Massachusetts Avenue, Quincy Street has become one of the main routes of access to the recitation buildings and Widener. By this diversion of student traffic a minor annoyance has become a public nuisance. I refer to the condition of the sidewalks on the west side of Quincy Street. During the last few days of thaw the curbings have enclosed a river of viscous, soupy, yellow mud quite impossible to walk in without acquiring an ample coating on one's shoes and trousers...