Word: embarkations
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When Clark Hodder '25 tees off this afternoon with Captain Comstock of Williams in the first match of an intercollegiate league contest, the University golf team will embark on the effort to annex its seventh consecutive victory...
...Taxpayers subject to the higher rates cannot afford, for example, to invest in American railroads or industries or embark upon new enterprises in the face of taxes that wiill take 50% or more of any return, that may be realized. These taxpayers are withdrawing their capital from productive business and investing it instead in tax-exempt securities...
...protesting that his wild bull automobile was stampeding traffic, Firpo moved across the Canadian border and showed off in Montreal. Thence he journeyed to ponder the tossing waters of Niagara; thence to Cleveland about automobiles, his business side line; thence to New York again, to shut his desk and embark with friends for a pugilistic grand tour of South America, commencing at Lima, Peru...
...Hecht is always about to embark upon a new enterprise. His dark eyes, nervous movements, ejaculatory speech, bitter mind, all suddenly are brought to bear upon the impossible and it is accomplished. He does too much. His plays just miss being brilliant. His novels suffer from a lack of taste which would undoubtedly be ironed out in a second writing. When he started to write a Rabelaisian fantasy in Fantazius Mallare he was only adolescent in his pornography and was consequently affected. His last book, a detective story, The Florentine Dagger, he claims to have written in ten hours...
...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...