Word: area
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years the maximum height for buildings in Boston was 125 feet above the street. Three years ago this was changed to 155 feet, and today we have a most unique law which does not restrict the height of a building provided its cubical contents do not exceed the area of the lot times 155. This represents the height of human ingenuity in determining how to solve traffic and light problems...
...outline their positions. The Blue "defenders" were composed of 6,000 flesh-and-blood officers and men drawn from the regular Army, the National Guards of New York and New Jersey, the organized Reserve, all under the command of Major General Hanson Edward Ely, commander of the Second Corps Area. Except for the activities of the staff officers of 32 commands, of telegraph, telephone and typewriter operators, of motorcycle messengers, chauffeurs and carrier pigeons, all the fighting was done on large maps with little red and blue flags moved craftily about...
...long ago appeared the logical place for a handy city air terminal. It was flat. It was five minutes sail to the Battery. The U. S. no longer needed it for defense purposes. Yet the Army, with a handful of soldiers and a Major-General commanding the Second Corps Area, clung obstinately to its convenient garden spot...
...assurance of the present government that our nationals will be given adequate protection." Hotly did Baron Tanaka deny that, as most Chinese Nationalists and foreign correspondents believe, Japan is unfriendly to the Chinese Nationalist Government : "A strong China with a government capable of enforcing its will over the entire area would be a blessing for Japan. . . . For a strong China, freed of the turmoil and the chaos which has plagued it for so many years, would enable Japan to further its trade, would increase our prosperity and would rid our nationals in China of the constant fear under which they...
...considered experimental whether judged by its appeal to students, by the practical and professional value of its training as shown by the accomplishments and attitudes of its graduates, by the demand for its product by business men, by the contributions of its Faculty to an important area of human knowledge and endeavor, by the support which it has attracted from industry and from business men, or by its promise of further accomplishment in all these fields. It may fairly forget the early questioning as to its status in the University and devote its attention in the future to perfecting...