Word: farthest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...race. In the contest, fliers from ten colleges of this country will be entered. G. Crompton '20 will pilot the University airship, and will be accompanied by several other members of the Aeronautical Society. The balloons will start from Akron, Ohio, and the crew which reaches the point farthest from the city will be chosen as the intercollegiate representative in the great national race to be held at St. Louis this summer...
First Lieutenant Leslie Orland Tooze, Law '19, was killed in the battle of the Argoone on September 28. He had distinguished himself on the field of battle, and the fact that his body was found lying at the farthest point of advance showed that he was leading his men when he fell...
...battle fronts to all who wish to attend. These talks are given before the war maps on the main stair case of Widener. The maps show in detail all territory from the Belgian coast to the Rhine, and give the present fighting lines, the lines of the farthest advance of the Germans in 1914, and the lines in March and July of the present year...
...issued would, in effect, be a violation of the order itself. If it had been thought practicable by the Fuel Administration in New England to cause all dances held in private homes or clubs to be stopped at 10 o'clock, this undoubtedly would have been done. The farthest Mr. Storrow went was to recommend giving up such festivities entailing waste of light and fuel where they did not fall under his jurisdiction. It is on this recommendation that the committee based its action...
...world should be saved, there are a score who go in because they like the sound of imperialism, or because they hate another nation, or because they were drafted. Among those who go in for the finer motives and voluntarily lay down their lives for reasons that are the farthest removed from all material considerations, Americans, of "material" America, are not without their glory...