Word: embark
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shall not attempt to coerce the Senate of the United States. I shall make no demand upon the people. . shall not try to impose my will. I shall embark upon no crusade...
Senators Johnson and Moses, irreconcilables, are in Europe enjoying their vacation, and incidentally collecting ammunition to fire at the Administration when the next Congress opens. The Administration, however, will not be without material for counterfire. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon is reported also to be about to embark on a European vacation. He will go entirely unofficially, but he will nevertheless meet men who are intimate with the financial and political affairs of Europe...
...miles. That was considered very wonderful, for up to that time, the amateur telegraph wire had been limited to something like one city square at the outside. The keen interest of so many young men and the growing interest of older men, led some of the amateurs to embark in the business of making and selling wireless apparatus. The ordinary things were all homemade. In fact, it was impossible to buy some transmitting apparatus at all. Mr. Lee DeForest then brought out what he was pleased to term the "Audion" detector. It was a little incandescent lamp, with...
...schedule of games for the Wasede University baseball team, just announced, includes a game with Harvard at Cambridge on May 25. The Waseda team will land in San Francisco on April 29, and will remain in the United States until July 14, when the team will embark from Seattle for Yokohama. The Japanese players will four both the east and west, playing the leading colleges in both sections. The schedule as announced so far begins with the University of Chicago, at Chicago, May 11: Harvard, at Cambridge, May 25: Yale, at New Haven, May 27: University of Pennayirania, at Philadelphia...