Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might well exhibit its efficiency and potency by assembling en masse for a stupendous steam through the Panama Canal. Imagine President Coolidge and Secretary Wilbur "silent on a peak in Darien," watching the flagship West Virginia poke its prow into the sun-kissed Pacific. Completed in 1924, at a cost of nearly $23,000,000, it is the last battleship which the U. S. can build until 1934, according to the Naval Limitations Pact agreed upon at the Washington Conference in 1923. The West Virginia, Colorado (the most expensive: $25,000,000) and Maryland are the three largest ships...
...second game of the "little three" series. Williams will seek to avenge last year's defeat at the hands of Wesleyan. The Purple has produced a strong outfit this year and is looking for a renewal of cost successes against its "little three" rivals. Holy Cross is also seeking revenge for the 17 to 0 defeat administered last year by Fordham...
...look with favor on the plan will be received at the office of the Graduate Secretary of the Union. It is understood that a minimum of 17 meals a week will be required in order to take advantage of the $2 a week discount. Under such an arrangement the cost of board would average slightly over $11 a week...
While the increased cost of the tickets may have kept some graduates from standing in for tickets, the previous record of the Harvard eleven in going down to defeat at the hands of Geneva and Holy Cress undoubtedly had something to do with the diminution of interest among alumni...
...poetry would have been creditable to any of the reviews. There were, of course, weaknesses in the sheet, rough places, passages that betrayed the undergraduate writer--but on the other hand there were no traces of that distressfully professional journalism which one finds so often in a magazine that cost thirty-five cents or half a dollar. The supplementary departments, too, he found creditable, the editorials, book reviews and theatre notes. But what interested him most was a sort of indefinable spirit in the magazine of gentlemanly youngsters interested in letters learning to write more than passably well...