Word: keepings
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This national intercollegiate organization would accomplish three main purposes. First, it would serve to keep the college Flying Clubs of the country in contact with each other, and as an authority for calling them together for conferences. Second, it would serve as an information bureau to aid in the forming of new clubs, and give advice as to methods of finance and operation. Third, it would serve as a governing body for intercollegiate competition, and would help to spread interest in aviation among the colleges. In general, it would the intercollegiate aeronautics together into a compact form with a permanent...
...local instance" not far from where the Nominee was speaking was the Federal power-and-nitrate project at Muscle Shoals on the Tennessee River. Whether the Government shall sell Muscle Shoals, or lease it to privateers, or keep and operate it itself, has been a hot question in the South for ten years. It is still such a hot question that Editor Edward John Meeman of the Knoxville News-Sentinel thought Nominee Hoover's government-in-business passage did not tell the South enough. He asked the Nominee point-blank what it meant. Then came the first Hoover postscript...
Young Senator LaFollette said nothing committal. It was still possible for Nominee Curtis, who went stumping through Wisconsin last week, to endorse the young man's candidacy for re-election to the Senate. "That brilliant young man," Nominee Curtis called him, in what seemed an importunate plea to keep the Progressives of the Northwest in line for the Hoover-Curtis ticket...
GREAT BRITAIN "Piggy People" Smart and sportsmanly Britons have long playfully called each other "horsey people"; and last week it began to seem that foremost British statesmen will soon be known as "piggy people." For some years, the hobby of pig keeping has been pursued by His Majesty's Prime Minister, the Right Honorable Stanley Baldwin; but last week despatches significantly announced that prizes have now been taken by a sow and a litter, respectively, hailing from the piggeries of two more Cabinet ministers. The sow appertains to His Majesty's Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Honorable...
Universal are the laws of fashion. Truly fashionable urbanites will not be content to keep hats, gowns,, suits in the latest mode. As distinct and almost as mercurial are style changes in shoes, gloves, jewelry, corsets, furs, silverware, automobiles, china, glass, trunks, musical instruments, furniture, toilet goods, perfumes...