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...different classes in the proposed colleges, contacts at present the good fortune of the few. Such contacts are highly necessary. To think and to converse on a class plane implies a staticism little affected by lecture experiences. And, further, the plan would offer an opportunity for birds of a feather to fraternize with birds of a different hue. In any university, preparing its men for modern life in whatsoever calling, this is most desirable. If democracy means anything, it is more than desirable. And to those who built the college, it means something so definite as to predicate real...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HOUSE DIVIDED | 4/7/1926 | See Source »

...feet, then a shifting of ballast, a plunge to 110 feet, another ballast-adjustment, and then a final plunge to 220 feet, at which level the underwater boat traveled successfully some seven miles. This test run constituted a record for official submarine navigation and was accounted as a feather in the V-2's periscope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Not Far Down | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

...Commons, Mr. David Lloyd George was in high feather as he twitted Sir Austen. Mr. George openly hinted that the Foreign Secretary had agreed to help France "pack" the League Council against Germany. Said he: "Aha! to Poland in this connection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Travel, Trouble | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

...crumpled slow ly into his chair in Ford's Theatre one April night, three men carried him across the street to a little house opposite. It was the house of William Peterson, a tailor. The President lay there all night, and all night his blood seeped into the square feather pillow under his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Feb. 22, 1926 | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

...Watermelon," "Welencei Boldosag," "Amen," "A peacock feather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fakery | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

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