Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trained upon a target whom he dared to attack only by indirect fire during his Army service-President Coolidge. "I recommended in 1925," he now writes, "that a board of disinterested persons be convened by the President to determine how the aeronautical problem should be handled in this country.** President Coolidge, instead of appointing a disinterested board, 'stuffed the deck.' He appointed on it persons well known to be hostile to the independent development of aviation. . . . Instead of creating a department of aeronautics separate from the Army and Navy as the English, French, Germans, Italians, Russians and Spanish...
...government will guarantee these bonds, merely the private bankers on the board of the international bank. They will be in effect mortgages against state-owned German railroads and privately owned German industries...
...over the management of Princeton Theological Seminary, greatest Presbyterian seminary in the U. S. Over the protests of Fundamentalists, who feared the move would unduly strengthen the hand of liberal Dr. Joseph Ross Stevenson, the president, it was voted to vest control of the seminary in a single joint board instead of the present dual control of trustees and directors. Those in favor insisted they were doing "nothing whatever which will tend to alter the distinctive doctrinal position which the seminary has maintained throughout its entire history...
...running board...
...conventional rear-wheel drive. More apparent to the layman is the ground-hugging streamline effect of the low structure made possible by the absence of the long drive shaft and rear-end differential. It is this low body which has made possible the elimination of the running-board-the passenger steps from the car directly to the ground. The Ruxton also claims greater "readability" and driving ease...