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Christopher Gore was one of Harvard's greatest benefactors, and the library which stood on the site of the present Widener Library Building from 1838 until it was torn down in 1912, was built from his bequest to Harvard College. The building was called Gore Hall, and the name was transferred to the dormitory of that name on its erection...
...blown away, was being trundled out on another truck. The post office was a wreck? bundles, letters, glass, splinters and debris hurled every which way. The two clerks, mangled and beyond recovery, managed to gasp out details of what had happened before they died. Three other clerks who were torn, cut and bleeding badly, and the five remaining infernal packages, still intact on the mailing counter, pieced out the story further. A Mennonite minister who had been addressing mail when the two bomb-mailers were there, added descriptive details. A manhunt by Federal as well as State authorities began, focusing...
...such a result we are indebted to the skill, the devotion and the tireless energy of the architects and the officers of the University who have taken part in the work. Save for the old Russell Hall--a part of Adams House, which Mr. Harkness proposed should be torn down and rebuilt at his expense--the Houses were completed and occupied at the opening the term this autumn. Residence in them has been voluntary, yet rooms for only fifty-one students, out of seventeen hundred and thirteen, are now vacant; and these include the unfilled places of men who have...
...always do!" cried the Man-of-the-Year. "We will not let the Young Plan be torn up!" (see below...
...instrument board loose. Caught by the wind the instrument board was blown against Pilot Johnson's head, knocking him unconscious. At about 500 ft. Pilot Johnson regained sufficient sense to bail out, pull open his 'chute. Pilot: safe. Plane: wrecked. Mail: undamaged save for a few torn wrappings...