Word: guards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ferry. Spick and span in steel gray, bright brass and Sunday "whites," the Texas, her captain & crew, will be waiting for the President at Key West to ferry him in six hours to Havana. A squadron of six destroyers led by the cruiser Memphis constitute the guard of honor. Captain Joseph R. Defrees is new aboard the Texas but his crew are well used to having glorified passengers aboard. The Texas is U. S. flagship and on her lives Admiral Henry Ariosto Wiley, commander of all the fleet.* When newsgatherers last week saw bigger & better portholes being built into...
...revamped basketball team with Captain J. N. Barbee '28 at right guard will be seen tonight fighting for the University when the Crimson players meet the Middlebury College team at 8 o'clock in Hemenway Gymnasium. This will be the third contest of the season for the University hoop-men, the first two games being lost to Boston University and Brown University consecutively...
...amended in 1920 and 1922. Besides charging the Assistant Secretary of War with the specific task of finding shot and shell and guns to shoot them for U. S. defense, the act sets up the U. S. military as follows: 1) The Regular Army, 2) The Nattional Guard, 3) The Organized Reserves. The U. S. is divided into nine corps areas of equal population. In war, each area would supply one Army division, two National Guard divisions, three Reserve divisions-54 divisions in all or six field armies. The regular Army and National Guard divisions (three field armies...
...better the relations. For unfortunately the virtues of experience as a teacher do not overshadow the waste and frustration that accompany her instruction. Particularly fortunate, then must the student, still grasping his diploma uncertainly, think himself who can have a man, seasoned and successful in this schooling, to guard him against needless buffetings...
...Such gifts act as a "starter" and give both possible future donors and those working to raise funds an additional incentive. gifts made conditional to the raising of further donors and those working to raise funds an additional incentive. Gifts made conditional to the raising of further funds also guard the donor against the danger, proved in the past to be very real, of having his money spent on a basement or foundation, the rest of the building being dependent upon pledged funds which often fail to appear...