Word: equipment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...squelching a rebuke from the representative of a Great Power, would have flustered most Chairmen, but sturdy Dutchman Loudon said evenly that he had read Mr. Harmon's letter because he considered that it contained a valuable suggestion. In brief, Airman Harmon's plan is to equip the League of Nations with a volunteer army of aviators, and each aviator with a bombing plane, ready at command to blow the night lights out of the capital of any nation which started...
...Herbert Hoover, whom the prospering Americans have chosen as their President. . . . Right now the Liberal Party is ready with plans which will reduce the terrible numbers of the workless in the course of a single year, to normal proportions, and when completed will enrich the nation and equip it to compete successfully with business rivals." Though slightly vague as to these plans, which seemed to hinge upon employing the jobless in road building and on glamorous public works, Mr. Lloyd George made the ringing assertion that "all this will be achieved without adding a penny to national or local taxation...
...residents of the Yard. The Harvard Union, as it is at present or with an annex, would be unsatisfactory. The unsavory reputation of Memorial Hall as a dining hall, its distance from most Yard dormitories, its uncongenial atmosphere, and the amount of money it would take to equip it satisfactorily, seem more than to offset the advantage of having the entire class eat together. Small dining halls on the first floor of buildings like Harvard Hall, for example, present another alternative, but in the last analysis the solution of the problem depends largely upon the amount of money available...
...decision of the Harvard Summer School to offer courses designed to equip more fully coaches of small colleges and secondary schools in the modern refinements of many sports is no innovation as far as colleges in general are concerned. Many other colleges have been giving such courses for a number of years, while Harvard has lagged behind, offering such instruction only on a limited scale. Now she is approaching the place she occupies in other branches of education...
...diplomatic language of the world, and, if possible, Italian and Spanish. . . . It is to be hoped that ultimately such a centre or college of law will be developed and will embody within its courses in international law one of diplomacy, that it may permit its students to equip themselves especially for our government's foreign service...