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...tape, to smash his own record by one and a fifth seconds. His time was 9 minutes 42 3-5 seconds. The other Harvard mark maker was C. A. Pratt '28, who sailed the discus 135 feet, nearly 10 feet better than the old record. Covert of Dartmouth beat the old javelin record by better than ten feet, and Moody added an inch to the high jump mark...
...chance to feature something besides the President's taciturnity. He was "obviously annoyed." It seemed for a time as if he might pound his fist. Then the Coolidge lips pursed themselves. From between them escaped "vitriolic sarcasm." Without raising his voice the President dealt scathingly with open and covert opponents of his debt funding and budget slashing plans...
Throughout was the covert threat that if Mrs. Moore's replies were unsatisfactory, Mrs. Potts would advise the clients of the National Patriotic Council to refrain from attending Mrs. Moore's meetings...
...William C. Covert, General Secretary of the Board of Education, lamented that a rank, reckless individualism was playing havoc with "our younger generation...
Such events, like tongues of flame bursting from smoldering embers, have more than once shown the covert development taking place. So far this deeper significance has been ignored. It may be that the future will be more fruitful of solution by the adoption of a policy of dispassionate recognition...