Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cleto Gonzalez Viquez, a bold gentleman with a scholar's brow, delivered perhaps the most sense-making speech of welcome thus far. He warmly and respectfully welcomed "the illustrious statesman and distinguished organizer," referred to the U.S. as a "colossus," acknowledged Costa Rica's debt to the late Chief Justice White of the U.S.* and, without flourishes, said: "There is nothing more natural than the purpose of my Government to maintain and improve the good relations." The Hoover reply was in kind. Besides orating about "cooperation" and "contacts," Mr. Hoover tried to define what he means by "goodwill...
...which was accepted, on the long-disputed Costa Rica-Panama boundary line. But the terms he used were general. The question was submitted to the U. S. and in 1914 Chief Justice White rendered a decision favorable to Costa Rica. Panama protested. There was dispute and even gunfire as late as 1921, when President Harding insisted that Panama accept the White award. * The white potato (Battata) was "discovered" along with Incas Andes gold etc. etc. by 16th century Spaniards. The potato entered Spain, Italy, Belgium before its supposed home Ireland, whither it was taken in 1586 by colonists returning from...
...report signed by Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce (written late in the summer after the appointment of Secretary Whiting, his successor) was published last week. Last commercial survey by the man who made the Commerce Department famous, it covered fiscaf 1928, which ended June 30, just after Mr. Hoover was nominated and before his resignation was accepted. It sounded very familiar, being largely a replica of its author's campaign speech. "Fiscal 1928," said Mr. Hoover, "had continued the high economic activity which has become characteristic of American industry." He cited the Mississippi flood, the cotton depression...
...factual check-ups in advanced courses, habitual procrastination offers perhaps, some excuse. An hour examination coming seasonably in the middle of November is valuable if it suggests to its victim preferable methods of preparing the subject at hand. An examination late in December is a thinly disguised but supposedly necessary turnstile to force men to supply themselves with credentials before they enter the Reading Period. Those who have been there before, and know the amount of required or suggested study that fetters the period should be little inclined to let course work overlap. But if in the light of human...
...Harvard hockey players had to battle everything but the police in their efforts to practice in those late winters of the Gay Nineties. An expedition, carrying all its worldly hockey goods with it, would set out in the afternoon, like Xenophon's Ten Thousand, looking for a place with ice. When it was found, camp was pitched, clothes were changed in the cold, and hockey was played as conditions permitted...