Word: footings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gibson career began at the foot of the foreign service ladder, at Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in 1908. It took him ten years to reach Paris. Woodrow Wilson in 1919 made him U.S. Minister to Poland. Calvin Coolidge transferred his ministerial duties to Switzerland and finally, in 1927, elevated him to the rank of U.S. Ambassador at Brussels...
...report of this courtly prelude to battle was forwarded to Minister of War Calles, and the battle was on, horse, foot and artillery...
...peculiar nose, pierces actuality with swift sharp glances. He early attained universal notoriety for Main Street and Babbitt, but long before that he had struggled as unsuccessful newspaper hack in Waterloo, Iowa, in San Francisco, New Haven. Supporting himself by prolific short stories, he led his nomadic existence, on foot, by motor, from St. Paul to Cape Cod, from Minneapolis to Washington and back again, gleaning, and sorting, and sifting the facts that compose his incisive writings. He started Dodsworth in Berlin, continued in France, Italy, and the Aegean Islands, finished the first draft on a motor caravan tour through...
...closest race of the day was the 50-yard back stroke. Fred Lewis '32, after trailing for the first two lengths, put on a fierce spurt which carried him not over a foot ahead of J. E. Shikes '32 at the finish. The time was 35 seconds flat...
...underwent a minor operation. Afterwards he received a scolding letter: "Why didn't you have the operation without an anesthetic, so you could see how the animals feel that you have tortured all these years? You will have an awful body in the next incarnation. . . . You have one foot in the grave now and the other foot on a banana peel, you old fiend." Remarked Surgeon Keen: "I take it that the letter is from a woman. If so I pity her possible husband. The fun of the thing is that I never have been a research worker...