Word: despatching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Presidents read with interest. Professors hemmed, hawed, mentally scrutinized their departmental colleagues. Undergraduates frowned loyally. Alumni wondered. The headline they were all looking at said: VOTE HARVARD FIRST IN NINE DEPARTMENTS. The despatch was from Cambridge, Mass., chiefly quotation from the Harvard undergraduate newspaper. President Raymond M. Hughes of Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) had, it seemed, felt the need of an "authoritative rating of the universities of the country" by subjects commonly taught. He had prepared a list of 20 subjects and mailed it to "several hundred scholars and scientists" of the U. S., asking each to vote...
...John Hemphreys ol Philadelphia, who later built the frigates Constitution, Constellation, etc. On Oct. 9. 1780, she captured four British vessels. Saratoga II, which mounted 26 guns and displaced 734 tons,† was flagship in the battle of Lake Champlain. From her Commodore MacDonough sent this despatch to Secretary of the Navy Madison: "Sir, the Almighty has been pleased to grant us a signal victory." Saratoga III, a sloop of 22 guns and 1,025 tons, was launched in 1842, suppressed slave-trade off the African coast, went to Japan with Commodore Perry in 1853, was gunnery ship at Annapolis...
Under the leadership of Sheik Said, the Kurds attacked Diarbekr in southern Turkish Kurdistan, entered the town, were driven out by the Turks. A despatch from London stated that part of the town had been destroyed by rebel artillery fire...
...Leonard began his experiments with carbolic acid, which, as is well known, kills disease germs and man with equal despatch. To resorcinol (very similar to carbolic acid) certain "fatty" acids were linked. The result was, at first, both an excellent antiseptic and a deadly poison. As the molecular proportion was changed, the antiseptic properties increased, the poisonous effect diminished. At last, with great difficulty, six atomical groups of the acids were united with the resorcinol, hexylresorcinol formed...
...news of the attempt to assassinate Governor Horthy came from Vienna: at least it was so labeled. A few days after this news was published in the U. S., another despatch, apparently originating in Vienna, has denied that any shot was fired against Governor Horthy. You might know by this time, that after the Bolshevik leaders, 95% of whom were Jews, had fled from Hungary to Vienna, Vienna became a rather unreliable source of news relating to Hungary...