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...With his eye cocked impatiently on the League of Nations' dormant Disarmament Conference President Hoover last week told the country: "Our people have ever been lovers of peace. . . . This Administration has spared no effort to bring about a reduction in arms. . . . These efforts are making progress. If these efforts finally fail we shall be compelled to build our Navy to the full strength, equal to that of the most powerful in the world...
...rate, according to the college chroniclers, the new era began in 1910 when Fred H. Harris of Brattleboro, Vermont, the first proficient ski runner and ski jumper to enter Dartmouth, awakened and organized those outdoor instincts which had been dormant so long. A gathering of some twenty-five students and a few faculty men discussed ways and means for getting the college out of doors in winter; and a public meeting shortly afterwards, gave birth to the Dartmouth Outing Club, with 50 or 60 enthusiastic members. On successive Saturdays this primeval flock of snowshoera waddled noisily forth from the campus...
...failed to wring hysterical whoops from his audience: slowly pulling off his pants and flinging them at the chandelier. "After that I could just lay back and rest for about five minutes." Unlike the stork, it would appear that boudoir farce has not been dead all these years, just dormant, for the curtain which rises on Playwright Kottow's show discloses right spang in the middle of the stage a fine big bed. Soon a whole set of theatrical tintypes begin to appear: the rake who has promised to disdain his innocent little bride until his mistress gives...
...year notes. The elevated lines grew progressively unprofitable. Last year they showed a loss of $4,000,000 which I. R. T. had to make good from its subway earnings. Knowing that I. R. T. would be unable to meet its notes on Sept. 1, Banker Morgan revived a dormant committee last July, wrote to all holders urging them to support plans for unification of all New York subways as the best way to obtain eventual payment. Recommending the same course Banker Charles Hayden of Hayden, Stone & Co. formed a protective committee for another note issue due in October. Both...
...love of football, dormant all through the season, was tardily awakened by a succinct little account of the Harvard-Yale game, in the Continental edition of the London Daily Mail. After a short introductory paragraph explaning to its readers on the Continent that the game had been won by Yale with a score of 3-0, the Daily Mail swung into the fray: "A 'spinner' by Yale's right half through the centre gave the first down to the Crimsons (Harvard) at the 11-yard mark. Then Eli, the Yale left half, heaved a long one that failed...