Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House dining room. They were: Colonel Coolidge, the President's father, who chatted with Mrs. Goodhue, the mother-in-law; Dr. Olds, President of Amherst; Miss Laura Skinner of Manhattan; Mrs. R. M. Hills of Northampton; Mrs. Frank W. Stearns. Mr. Stearns was absent. He had gone to the Union Station to meet John Coolidge, the President's son, who was due on a 7:30 train. The President ate in silence, wondering where the boy was. Before breakfast was finished, Mr. Stearns returned, reported the train an hour late. When John arrived some time later...
...Vice Presidential insignificance. Besides, the public has of late manifested no little disgust for the methods of Congress, the Senate in particular. Under present circumstances, it is not unlikely that the Senate will go on during the next four years in the same manner in which it has gone on for the last four years, "dawdling," in the manner which has left the Isle of Pines Treaty unacted upon for a score of years, the World Court proposal for over two, and Muscle Shoals for something longer. To be sure, Mr. Dawes is disadvantaged by being able to do very...
Skeptics, marveling that they had been (permitted to read of this happening, took a vow never to order a sandwich in the Automat, reformed their former low opinion of the honesty of the U. S. press. "There is a big advertiser † gone," they said, wagging their heads...
...even when these points--which are after all pretty simple--have been considered, one has hardly got beneath the surface. What are these subjects supposed to do for a man? What have they done for the men of your acquaintance who have gone farthest in them? What territory do they cover? If each were summed up in a single volume, what would be the chapter headings of that volume? (For some of those chapter headings will be the titles of the courses you will take if you concentrate there). Above all, what sort of a "view of life" does each...
...University to work in this field. 18 trips have been planned this year, all but seven of which have already taken place. Not only has interest among graduates and under graduates of the University been far greater than in former years, but the towns where the teams have gone have reported most favorably on the work...