Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inability to take Colonel Lindbergh to New York the "one failure in the Spirit of St. Louis's performance," Mr. Mitchell added: "and it was caused by the organization in this country which has always impeded and held up aviation-the Navy." Navy officials refused to discuss the Mitchell attack, except for Assistant Secretary Robinson's remark, quoted above. Colonel Lindbergh, however, said: "It [the defect found in the Spirit of St. have been caused by carelessness on anyone's part. ... I wish particularly to compliment the naval air station at Anacostia on the high character...
There is a little time, obviously, in a work where interesting detail so predominates, to discuss minutely the theories of education maintained and the methods used by the well-known masters. Rather, with the name of each man, is told the works he brought forth, the extent of his note and authority in the nation at large, and his popularity with the students or perhaps, his reserve. His campus hick name, his mannerisms, his students form the mainstay of the biographical portions of the narrative. Nevertheless, in speaking of Eliot, of Wendell of Charles Eliot Norton and of others like...
...annual series of discussions of religion as related to every-day life will begin on November 6, when Roscoe Pound Hon '20, Dean of the Law School, will speak on "Religion and Law." Other speakers definitely chosen for the first half of this course include Dr. Michael Pupin, who is listed to discuss "Religion and Science" on November 20. Dean W. B. Donham '98, of the Business School, who will talk on "Religion and Business" on November 27, and Dr. R. C. Cabot '89, of the Department of Social Ethics, who is scheduled for December 4 to speak on "Religion...
...accepted speaking offers, became rich. When she spoke in burlesque theatres she considered herself to be "like Christ among the publicans." In 1903 she tried, unsuccessfully, to see President Roosevelt; then entered the Senate Gallery, sold miniature hatchets. When she rushed into the Senate Chamber shouting: "Treason, anarchy, conspiracy-Discuss these!" she was arrested, fined $25. In 1911 she entered a sanitarium at Leavenworth where she died the following June of paresis. Dying, she asked that on her tombstone should be inscribed the epitaph: "She hath done what she could...
Last week a conference of the executives of British non-self-governing areas convened in London to discuss this and other projects. Most of those present were, of course, Governors of Crown Colonies. To them spoke their Chief, Right Honorable Leopold Charles Maurice Stennet Amery, His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies...