Word: embark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uncertain ages. In trying to remain young; in having its face lifted by speed records Great Britain may have been guilty of the folly of aging men and women. And now, in company with other nations, England is entered upon the distressed state into which those of uncertain ago embark when their age becomes certain...
Arriving by plane at Seattle, Secretary Hurley would there embark on a 23-day trip across the Pacific to Manila. Before he left Washington he conferred long and solemnly with President Hoover whose eyes and ears he will be in the Philippines. At its next session Congress is more than likely to pass a bill freeing the islands. To be forearmed for such legislation, the President wanted his war chief to make a special survey of Philippine economics and politics. President Hoover in principle opposes independence for the Philippines but last week it was hinted he might, on the strength...
...finances. Santiago teemed with discontent. In Buenos Aires the Argentine police had raided the rooms of one Pedro Leon Ugalde, who narrowly failed to bring off a Chilean revolution at Conception several months ago. As a matter of courtesy they announced publicly that Senor Ugalde was about to embark on another revolution which looked highly promising...
...first of these, the Crimson Serenaders, consisting of five students at the University under the direction of J. E. Larkin '32, will embark on the S. S. Scythia on July 9, returning September 10. During the intervening time the orchestra will go on a tour through the center of France, during which it will give a number of programs...
Remaining members of the Harvard unit of the N. R. O. T. C. who have applied for membership in the cruise which is annually offered by the government to naval students, are scheduled to embark in the U. S. S. Arkansas from the port of Boston on August 27, returning on September 16. They will make the trip in company with the corresponding units of the universities of Yale and Northwestern, and of Georgia Tech...