Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alone was in Body-of-Water Two (10.8 miles off shore) when picked up and pursued by the cutter Walcott. Captain John Thomas Randall of the I'm Alone insisted he was in Body-of-Water Three (14 to 15 miles off shore) when spoken. The Treasury justified its pursuit as "hot and continuous" under the Tariff Act. Great Britain held that such pursuit could only begin within territorial waters (Body-of-Water One), and could not reasonably extend beyond Body-of- Water...
...craft 24 hours later on the high seas, the I'm Alone was sent down by gunfire from the cutter Dexter. The man killed was a Negro seaman. The rest of the crew, in irons, were carried to New Orleans aboard the Dexter. Admiral Billard was positive the pursuit began within the twelve-mile limit and therefore within the terms of the British Rum Treaty. But the British embassy was not so sure...
...Chief Rebel Gilberto Valenzuela, presidential candidate and El Capitan de los Cristeros: "When the federal government comes to its senses and sends Calles out of the republic and Fortes Gil (provisional president) agrees to permanent legal operations of government and the carrying out of elections, religious liberty and the pursuit of business without the interference of assassins, then all associated with the revolutionary movement will agree to a settlement...
...experiments in progressive education now being conducted along various lines at Harvard, Wisconsin, Swarthmore, and other institutions, which are to a considerable extent embodied in his own plan. The prime purpose of Utopia College is the avowed one of all modern universities; namely, to stimulate intelligent thinking. In pursuit of this fundamental end, however, Dean Hibbard proposes a radical innovation, such as is not approximated by any formally organized American institution, and to which the nearest approach is the experimental school at Wisconsin. All regular courses are to be abolished and the efforts of the students at Utopia College will...
...particularly satisfactory method of impressing students in a given course with the inclusiveness which should be implicit in any pursuit of knowledge is the judicious addition of occasional lectures by authorities with varying points of view and experience in related fields. The present announcement of Professor Salvemini's appearance in connection with History 2 is fully in accord with the increasing flexibility of the course system...