Word: concorde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same way, a company of infantry may have a constructive strength equal to a regiment. Thus the 75,000 troops with the Black fleet were largely constructive. In the second place, the results of an action are decided by umpires. In the New England game, for instance, the cruiser Concord was "sunk" by the battleship Pennsylvania. What happened was that the Concord, lightly armored, chanced to get in range of the Pennsylvania's 14-inch guns, remain in range for a time long enough (in the umpire's opinion) for the Pennsylvania to have sunk her in actual...
Onetime (Jan. Nov. 1924) Labor Premier James Ramsay Macdonald, now on pleasure bent in the U. S. (TiME, April 18) visited the scene of his honeymoon at Concord, Mass., last week; but received while there disturbing news that the radical "Clydeside" wing of British labor had begun a campaign in his absence to wrest from him leadership of the Labor party...
...Years After. Apple-cheeked Ishbel Macdonald, 24, accompanied her father last week when he tried and failed to find by memory's aid alone the little house at No. 8 Lowell Road, Concord, Mass., where he honeymooned 30 years ago with Mrs. Macdonald, who died when Ishbel was 8. At last, Mr. Macdonald, who had concealed his destination from reporters as long as possible, was obliged to ask the way. With alacrity they told him, rushed ahead to plant the spiked tripods of their cinema cameras on the old Colonial porch of No. 8 Lowell Road...
Locarno followed the Dawes Plan; and security in Europe has measurably followed Locarno. It was only when Premier Macdonald pushed his earnest desire for world concord to the length of furthering a rapprochement with Soviet Russia that he lost contact with British public opinion and was obliged to resign the premiership. He remains the strongest single figure in the British Labor party, and may well become premier again. In the U. S. he will spend merely a short Easter vacation, will call upon President Coolidge, will speak only once, before the Foreign Policy Association in Manhattan...
Stuart Gordon Hardy '29, of West Reading, Connecticut, was appointed yesterday, Second Assistant Manager of baseball. George Kirkpatrick Whitney '29, of Concord, was appointed Assistant Manager of the Second baseball team, while Charles Perry Collens 29, was chosen manager of class baseball...