Word: downs
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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U. S. Weather Bureau officials last week waited breathless as tornadoes stuck down their twisting, grey trunks to send buildings flying in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas. Worst damage was at Bethany, Okla.-25 killed, 57 seriously injured.
Thus far the two Houses have been little more than enlarged Freshman dormitories with the similarity between the old and the new residential systems particularly evident in a distrust of the common rooms. If these rooms of the Houses are to prove attractive to the undergraduate they must become more...
Odds were 3 to i for sallow, hard-hitting Lightweight Champion Al Singer as he met Challenger Tony Canzoneri, once featherweight champion, in Manhattan last week. It was to be 15 rounds and the reporter broadcasting at the ringside made the obvious comment that both men were getting set for...
When a book of gossipy memoirs entitled The Story of San Michele was launched in the U. S. (May, 1929) by Publisher Dutton, the little imported edition (364 copies) slid simply down the ways, struggled unostentatiously against the flood, then sank apparently without a trace. But ten months later it...
Said Solomon (rhetorically) to the Sluggard: "Go to the ant!" No sluggard, but a scientific inquirer whose researches have not damped his mystical inquisitiveness, Maurice Maeterlinck has gone to the ant, observed its actions, noted down many a formicine phenomenon in this exciting little book.