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Cities shall no longer spring up like amorphous patches of skunk cabbage, misshapen, loutish, by every tuppeny estuary or frail river. The growth must be directed intelligently if the U. S. is to avoid such "atrocities" in city-planning as its present metropoleis. "New York," declaired Robert W. DeForest, "is the world most horrible example. . . ." Boston, planned like a squatter's settlement, cannot recover good form for less than $50,000,000. Washington and Philadelphia, braced in infancy are straighter And the city of the future...
...fault was mutual: Senior A had failed to stop, and the launch was on the left of the arch. In trying to regain the right side, the launch hit the shell in the bow, sinking it immediately. B. F. Rice Bassett at bow jumped just in time to avoid injury...
President Coolidge addressed them: "There is only one way in modern civilization ... to avoid the constant interposition of Government into practically all the affairs of the people and that is for the people to adopt a correct course of action. ... If they do not want government through public action, they must provide it through private action...
...criticisms that are heaped upon the incumbent. He believes that the life service tradition should be held inviolable but that men are liable to break, or to be driven from office. This condition, if it were obtained, would cause the kind of man which the office demands to avoid it, tion, it assumes a super...
Have you crossed the street to avoid meeting some person...