Word: began
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Possibly to be Secretary of Navy or War, Mr. Hoover's good friend Hugh Gibson, now Ambassador to Belgium, who began life in California. Also powerfully pondered were the great ambassadorships. Leading candidate for something good, possibly London: handsome, able Henry Prather Fletcher who escorted the Hoovers to and around and back from South America, and who, like Mr. Gibson, is a distinguished diplomatic career...
Knowledge of strategy and physical bravery are already possessed by these men, but it is the function of their government to provide them with ships, their instruments of war. In the Senate, last week, this function began to be discussed, relative to the Cruiser Bill, relict of the last Congress. Did the U. S. need more light cruisers? In view of the passage of the Kellogg Peace Treaty, should the U. S. feel that appropriating money for more naval armament would be a belligerent act? The issues were complex and contested. The question seemed likely to absorb the Senate...
Hardly had Mr. Smith turned away from the microphone when telegraphic notices of donations and congratulations began to arrive. Mrs. A. L. Love of Ottumwa, Iowa, wired: "My compliments-Matthew...
Paavo Nurmi, famed Finn, began his second series of U. S. runnings 'by establishing in Brooklyn three world's records as follows: 3,000 yards in 7 min, 43 and 2/5 sec.; 2,500 metres in 6:58; and one and five-eighth miles in 7:23 2/5. He made these records in the course of running 3,000 yards with a stop watch in one hand...
...first suspicion of the truth. The morning the English 99 1-2 exam was to be held, he substituted at the last minute papers for Abyssmian Philology. A few discontented murmurings were heard from the students, but most of them set diligently to work. Then Mucilage began to walk up and down the aisles, peering over the shoulder of every man. At last he found what he was seeking...