Word: equipment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...private secretary and served devotedly through all the vicissitudes of the South China Republic, founded by Dr. Sun at Canton. When the Great Leader died in 1925, Disciple Chiang Kai-shek had just completed an arrangement with the Russian Soviet Government whereby millions of rubles were furnished to equip the Nationalist Army in Canton and launch it upon a northward conquest of all China...
...vibrations of the political shuttle-cock as it bounces from farm relief to prohibition, from water power control to oil scandals. In a democracy, an educated man ought also to be an educated governor, and a college is remiss in a full performance of duty if it fails to equip its graduates with a working knowledge of public affairs. College courses, under the necessity of remaining non-partisan and more or less theoretical, cannot materially further this type of education. Recent political club revivals lack sufficient staying power...
...Colgate, the manager of the team figured out that it cost $110.05 to equip each member of a squad of 50 ... Columbia, planning to "resume athletic relations" with Dartmouth, was trying to build a backfield around a lone veteran called Kumpf . . . Dartmouth would have last year's stars, Captain Black and Alton Marsters . . . Roper of Princeton, who is at his best with raw beef, had a squad with many lettermen . . . three Harvard backs were severely injured in practice . . Captain Donn Greenshields of Penn State was in bed, recovering from pneumonia . . . Knute Rockne, famed Notre Dame coach and journalist...
...Pilsener at 12½ ?a glass, and ice cold, too." Capt. Robert Dollar, 84-year-old President of the Dollar Steamship Co. (San Francisco), reached New York on the President Van Buren, rested from his fourth trip around the world in five years. Newsgatherers told him his line will equip its new ships with airplanes. He wagged his square white beard with approval. "It's a nice idea," he grunted, "for people in a hurry. I have never ridden in an airplane. I do not intend to." Widow Roosevelt, Parson Cadman, Producer Anderson, Editor Lorimer, with 1531 fellow-passengers...
Free clinics have gone too far, objected Dr. Jabez N. Jackson (Kansas City), president of the association in his address to the house of delegates. The money and time investment of the modern physician equip him to give competent service to the public; the public should realize the debt and pay it, instead of crowding into clinks...