Word: faste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Retiring-Commodore Hartley did not go into the cotton business after all, instead he accepted a post as "chief operating officer" of the Transoceanic Corp., an organization which hopes to borrow money from the Shipping Board to build six fast liners and inaugurate a four-day trans-atlantic service to Europe. Said Chief Operating Officer Hartley: "I thank God for this opportunity ... to put our country back on the high seas...
...gusty wind. The dirigible dipped gently, close to the carrier; then bucked like a frightened horse. A vagrant gust tossed it 200 feet in air. Again it angled downward, its sensitive nose smelling the sea ship tentatively. Ropes were dropped, sailors dragged the huge sky ship closer, held it fast. A hose was hoisted aboard the Los Angeles. Refuelling was simulated; supplies, passengers exchanged...
...their own," no classes having been held by the Faculty and the student body left to its own devices to pass the examinations just ahead. This hiatus is called a "reading period," and its purpose is to give the students a chance not only to catch up on the fast-flying regular work of the first term but to put in some real work in rather more than "preparing" for the tests to come. The theory is, of course, that a serious student will do much better work and get better results if he is put on his own responsibility...
...could be operated in conjunction with the mature work of four years in the colleges instead of as a link in it, the plan seems a most happy provision for the gentle men who are not scholars but desire to be collegians. The present progressive, standard-raising movements are fast accepting the principles which Professor Mather propounds for his senior college; yet they leave no place for the men in question, and their right to a humanistic education. The experimental endowment of such a two year course in some one of the larger universities would be an interesting step toward...
...metre event there will probably be Vennstrom of Sweden, rated at 15.3 seconds, and Burghley and Gaby of England, both of whom have done 15 seconds flat or better. Sempe of France, and Steinhardt of Germany are not quite so fast as the other three but under the pressure of Olympic competition, might step into the lead. America, however, has unquestionably better material. Wells of Dartmouth and Ring of the New York Athletic Club with Werner of the Illinois Athletic Club and Dye of California can all of them turn in stellar performances, while there is any number of good...