Word: ago
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Travellers' Club was founded some eighteen years ago with the object of promoting intelligent travel and exploration. The activities of the Club have consisted chiefly of meetings during the winter months for the presentation of papers; exhibits of the products of sport and travel have also been given occasionally, and a gold medal has been awarded from time to time to members of the Community who have distinguished themselves in exploration...
...designed skating rink ever built. It will be possible to transform the ice surface into a wooden floor within four hours and then freeze a new skating surface, in as short a time. In order to prevent a repetition of the fire which destroyed the old Arena several years ago, concrete construction has been used practically throughout the building, even for the seats, which are arranged in the same manner as those in the Stadium. Five thousand people can be accommodated at athletic games or other events which require the use of the rink or track, and eighty-five hundred...
...form of lead, with lower atomic weight but otherwise precisely similar, produced apparently by the decomposition of uranium. Radium has been found by others to be one of the intermediate products, and it has come to be generally acknowledged that helium (discovered by Sir William Ramsey 23 years ago) is one of the final decomposition products of radium...
Although this play was written by Meilhac and Halevy about fifty years ago, its theme is modern and highly interesting. It deals with, the complications that arise in the life of a French family due to the plotting of a clever but unprincipled woman, Fanny Lear, the English actress and adventuress...
...Yesterday's results in the first registration for class elections were disappointing, the total being only 496, as compared with 976 voting in last year's elections. An interesting comparison may be made between yesterday's totals, by classes, and those of the balloting a year ago: Yesterday. Last Year. Seniors, 90 146 Juniors, 127 210 Sophomores, 117 187 Freshmen...