Word: impendingness
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¶ J. Edward Jones, head of the National Petroleum Council, wrote President Roosevelt demanding the removal of Secretary Ickes as Administrator of the Petroleum Code. Mr. Ickes was accused of being ''incompetent, inexperienced, unqualified, temperamentally unfitted, unfair, biased . . . lacking in a proper conception of real government functions." Said...
Senator Borah's recent warning that a naval race will cause war states only half the problem, for the struggle for superiority in arms is a symptom of more fundamental animosities. It is true, as the Senator laments, that the impending renunciation of treaty restrictions gives the lie to the...
It seems that the Loomis eleven was about to meet a highly touted bunch of toughs from up Deerfield way, and the team, coaching staff, and student body were trembling, collectively and individually at the thought of the impending shellacking. But sweet are the uses of adversity, and some clever...
The Illinois game showed the Army to be more than vulnerable this year, and accordingly the Corps and the men that will be on the field tomorrow are taking the game with Harvard as they have always taken it, a game none too sure until the mass of gray arises...
I do not wish to offer a judgment of superiority or inferiority. I critize Cambridge more severely than my American friends who have worked there. The unctuous epigram is too apt to be handed out as a substitute for statement. Et surtout, messieurs, pas trop de zele. On balance, though...