Word: across
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jane Addams, grey-haired Chicago settlement worker, walking across the dining room of Hull House, slipped, fell, broke her wrist...
Induction. A block east of the dun-colored house provided for the University of Chicago's president (in the barn of which Mrs. Hutchins will sculp and not keep an automobile), facing the broad Midway across the street from John D. Rockefeller's $1,500,000 chapel, stands Ida Noyes Hall, the women's centre, given by the late La Verne Noyes ("Dealer in People," inventor of the aeromotor) in memory of his wife. Here the induction procession formed, young President Hutchins preceded by the trustees and by five-score other college presidents, including his father, and by the faculty...
...Harmeson passed to a squat little fellow named Bill Woerner who, falling across Iowa's line, gave Purdue its first Big Ten championship in 33 years. Purdue 7, Iowa...
...Atlanta, Ga., Samuel Feldman, grocer, looked across his counter at a smiling Negro who was pointing a pistol...
...talk such inexplicable rubbish about reconnoitring the village, the old Sabakin, the swindling representative, the bloody Tsar Nicholas, Isabella and other things, that the women were absolutely tongue-tied with fright and respect, and the driver exclaimed in a drunken voice, 'Gee up,' and clapped his arms across his chest with sheer delight...