Word: surroundings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...electric light bulb at Chicago's Fair of 1893 will appreciate the "Century of Progress" idea when they see the show's location. Within view of one of the country's tallest city skylines, on the lakefront from 12th to 39th Streets, the buildings surround a long lagoon and stand almost entirely on "made" land that did not exist when the Columbian Exposition was held five miles south of the Loop. Approaching this year's Fair from the heart of town the visitor's first sight will be two 625-ft. steel towers joined...
...into the composition which Mr. Stratford draws with a painstaking hand. Not only grandmother's world, but her ideas receive pointed analysis. The result is very satisfying to read, not merely as pageantry, but as history, and as a thorough quietus to all the half-truths and misconceptions which surround our ideas of our forbears...
Obviously 'Coach Stubbs' men were not playing the sterling brand of hockey that they have sprung on several occasions earlier in the season. deGive was not in the best of form and Torouto seemed to be able to surround and block off the Crimson sextet at will. Fifteen Harvard spares went in to stem the tide but could not stand the pace. Baldwin saved the team from a white-wash by an unassisted score two minutes before the close of the game. Both Princeton and Yale have succumbed...
Emerging as it does from the storm of squabblings over graft and machine politics which surround us, a conference held recently at Princeton, N. J., between professors of political science and political leaders, was a distinct relief...
...turned Quaker. Sure enough, he has. He will not even defend himself when angry Jinny sets de Grammont on him to provoke him into a fight. But, lightweight that he may be. de Grammont is a perfect gentleman, sees that Jinny really loves Colpoys still. When the troopers surround them the Frenchman makes good the others' escape, saves his skin by great presence of mind and highly ingenious lying, lives to get a grateful letter from Jinny, now Mrs. Colpoys, on her way to the Quaker Plantations...