Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Norway, a group of Socialist and Communist statesmen whose political complexions are if not red extremely pink. Their first act was to propose that military training shall be abandoned this year, and that the State shall undertake a national monopoly to buy and distribute grain. Has Norway then "gone Red?" To know her people is to understand how laughable is such a suggestion...
...crying: "Why?" Mr. Wright had his reasons. The first was the Kittyhawk flight. The second was famed Samuel Pierpont Langley, onetime secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Able Langley had made many experiments in aviation including the construction of a machine capable of sustaining man in flight. When, some years gone, the Smithsonian wrote the Wrights for a machine, the original "wings of man" was offered. It was gently refused with the suggestion that a later Wright machine might be preferable. It seems that the Smithsonian, honoring their secretary, had already in residence the Langley machine, placarded as the first heavier...
Cambridge of late has been a place of periods, influences and trends. The Reading Period is a subject for pleasant reminiscence, the Mid-Years period one of hateful retrospection. The period of relaxation, handsome while it lasted, has gone the way of all good holidays, fast. With the exception of a few helot Seniors still enjoying French leave in the sunshine of the Bermudas or the vintage spots of the Old Dominion, the College has once more assembled. The period of recuperation has set in and it is a sad, sad business. The mail man brings his daily cargo...
...same day General Motors Corp. ("A family of products and people") announced its sales figures, which had gone opposite to the trend of the industry. The "family" had sold in 1927, 1,554,577 cars; in 1926, 1,215,826. Its 1926 profits had been $186,231,182; its 1927 profits are expected to have been...
...Today, however, Trotsky is as threadbare as his cloak. Man and symbol they passed, last week, into a drab railway car which rumbled out of Moscow at twenty minutes after nine. The crowd, moved but still perfectly docile, fell to sobbing plenteous Russian tears, murmured, "Trotsky is gone. Trotsky...