Word: covered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regard to general naval strength he declared: "It is impossible to make a mathematical ratio of naval strength that will cover all factors. About the best we can truly say is that if 5 and 3 represent the present fighting strengths of Great Britain and Japan, respectively, then the United States would appear to be approximately 4." He amplified this statement by a list of particular ratios...
...British life, portrayed with an observation keenly penetrating but rich with understanding. It is not the best thing the author has done, but it is decidedly good. These people are so real that one is sure Mr. McFee has, for our benefit, graciously detained them be tween the book covers for an hour or so, but as soon as is polite, they will walk right off the last page, through the back cover, and on with their own all-absorbing concerns. The style is bewilderingly and fascinatingly reminiscent of Conrad, Dickens (in the humorous passages especially), Flaubert, Tolstoi. Even through...
...scheme consists in informing gullible individuals that they (the gullibles) are descendents of one Anneke Jans Bogardus, wife of the Rev. Everardus Bogardus, who owned the valuable plot some two centuries ago. For a modest fee to cover the expenses of investigating the title, the swindlers hold out to their prospects the possibility of sharing in the sale of the property for many millions of dollars, should it be found rightfully to belong to the Bogardus heirs. For many years the clique lived off the "fees" obtained from the "heirs...
...have John T. McCutcheon draw a cartoon for the cover. Then we'll have an editorial page and put at the top that things of Decatur's: 'Our Country . . . may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!' That must be good stuff; we've used it for a long time. Then we'll get some stories-the kind we use in our Sunday editions-by George Barr McCutcheon, Albert Payson Terhune and Montague Glass. And we can have Mae Tince, who does our movies, contribute some of that...
...half-mile mark, set by W. J. Bingham '16 a decade and a half ago, was lowered by Exeter's captain, A. H. O'Neil, by one-fifth of a second to 58 4-5 seconds. C. E. Borah of Andover proved himself able to cover 100 and 220 yards as fast as almost any other schoolboy in the country. Despite a wet track and a fine mist blowing in from the east, Borah found little difficulty in running two trial heats and then winning the shorter dash in 10 seconds flat, equalling the record made way back...