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...slender perpendicular lines to a blunt, shorn-off pinnacle 680 ft. above the rectangular base. The base is to be 360 by 260 ft., with four main arches, each 39 ft. high, opening into the heart of the pile. Batteries of high-speed elevators will be installed to race aloft through the tower to class rooms, laboratories, shops, libraries distributed on the building's 52 floors...
Over 50 enthusiastic La Follette backers gathered outside of Memorial Hall last night, and, waving aloft the flaming red emblems of their faith, marched around the west side of the Yard to the Freshman Dormitories, and then back to Massachusetts Avenue, and the Harvard Union...
...Orchid Man," now a wilted frond, had been crushed by Gene Tunney with a blow below the belt in the 14th (penultimate) round of their fight for Tunney's U. S. light heavyweight boxing title. Policemen subdued Descamps. Referee Griffin seized Tunney's right hand, held it aloft, said: "You win, Gene!" The scene had taken place on a brilliantly illuminated platform in the centre of a gloom-filled amphitheatre. At Griffin's gesture, pandemonium burst from the darkness on all sides. Some 40,000 throats concatenated anger and approval but none save the fighters knew certainly...
...parade completed, President Doumergue sounded forth to the assembled multitude of 25,000 this version of an ancient formula: "I proclaim the opening of the Olympic Games of Paris, celebrating the eighth Olympics of the modern era!" Instantly trumpets trumpeted, cannon thundered, a cloud of carrier pigeons wheeled aloft to wing far beyond France's borders with the news...
...Jersey sent up John E. Matthews to nominate Governor Silzer. New Jersey started a jaded parade, followed by New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. A pretty girl on the platform turned round and round, holding aloft the Governor's picture; another waved a flag; a glee club yowled intermittently. It was hard work, but lasted almost half an hour. Another New Jerseyan seconded Mr. Silzer...