Word: longed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...system between London and Paris. Although crossing the Channel was an unusual feat eight years ago, the recent progress in aviation has made that same trip an every-day occurrence. We have read that the governor of Rhode Island traveled by this method when he visited France not long ago. What was seldom done in times of peace has been made a daily necessity by war-time needs. Rivalry for the supremacy of the air is a forceful incentive to make machines in greater numbers and each one superior to previous aircraft. Bombing, reconnaissance and duelling have developed the speed...
...indoor meet has been annually one of the most important events on the winter schedule of University and Freshman track teams. Last year the relays included a long-distance race with Yale, each man running 780 yards, and a shorter contest against Cornell, each runner covering 390 yards. In addition, the 1920 team met Yale 1920 in a dual relay...
...Tread the snow down hard and scatter the hayseed and crumbs there, or put the food on a board or box and watch the juncoes and tree sparrows fill up. Put out chaff and grain for the quail and meadowlarks in the pasture. They work for us all summer long, eating insects...
Once more the long arm of Mars has reached to Massachusetts, and again the great mass of the people of the Bay State have felt his pinch. The immediate cause this time is the recent order of Mr. Storrow, which decrees that after next Monday all activities of the Commonwealth shall cease daily at 10 P. M., and that in all other ways possible, coal and energy created by coal be economized...
...measures were necessary; nevertheless, would it not be possible to remedy the difficulty not by cutting down on the waste of artificial light, but rather by curtailing the waste of the free and abundant sunlight? In the warring nations of Europe the Clock has been turned back for so long that it may never return to its former habits. The experiment was tried by a large percentage of the University in the R. O. T. C. last summer, and its advantages were obvious to the greatest bed-lovers in the Regiment. Even if for national reasons the authorities...