Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resolution to send five U. S. delegates to Reykjavik next June, to provide them with $50,000 for a statue or memorial of Lief Ericson, Icelandic hero. Republican Floor Leader Tilson called the proposal "one of those handsome things we ought to agree to." The resolution would have gone through with a unanimous cheer, but for the fact that Congressman Burtness, anxious to make a gesture pleasing to his many constituents of Scandinavian extraction, began his resolution with a flowery preamble which said, among other things...
Today marks the close of Commencement Week in Cambridge. Over three thousand graduates have gone to considerable expense and trouble in order to renew their connection with the University for a few days. To many the class parades, the variegated costumes, and the whole atmosphere which pervades Cambridge is a futile expression of an outworn tradition; and yet year after year it continues and is subscribed to by the most intelligent men in the classes...
...ideal behind physical exercise at Harvard today is supervised recreational competition. Gone are the days when boys assemble in a gymnasium to follow in sheep-like fashion the lead of a physical director. This form of exercise has been replaced by competitive games, and it is interesting to know that in this building these, is a very small space devoted to the old type gymnasium facilities. I doubt if there will be more than a dozen pairs of dumb bells or Indian clubs in the whole building, but in their place we shall have swimming, wrestling, boxing, fencing, basketball, indoor...
...Iowa), Harry S. Leslie (Indiana), Harry Flood Byrd (Virginia). Governor Fred Warren Green (Michigan) also flies frequently. U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham (Connecticut) is the only Senator who flies frequently. None of President Hoover's Cabinet flies often. Recently Secretaries Adams (Navy), Lament (Commerce) and Davis (Labor) have gone up. Secretary Davis said that he would buy a plane, could he afford...
...other bids scaled down to as low as $14 a ton. No official acceptance of the Chapman bid was announced, but it appeared not unlikely that American Diamond and America France Lines would follow to where United States and American Merchant Lines had already gone...