Word: loom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like most reformers, forestry associations have been too much inclined to stop at the superficial. Immediate needs and crises loom large and take the attention from the movement as a whole. For instance, bills have been brought into Congress time after time, before that body has been prepared for them by an expression of public opinion sufficient to counteract the pressure brought on legislators by lumber interests. The main reason for the failure of progressive action has been the lack of popular interest...
Four other men loom up as very probable members of the 1924 team, W. E. Crosby, Newton High School captain last year; Parke Cummings, a former Mercersburg tennis man; W. H. Harkness, of three years' experience at Hill; and J. M. Hopkins, an Andover veteran. Of these Crosby, whose playing is of the speedy, hard type, appears the most promising. He is exceptionally fast on his feet and difficult to evade at the net; and he showed both of these qualities last spring in the Interscholastics when he reached the semi-finals only to be put out of the running...
...large field of entrants in the 300-yard dash and the one-mile run, D. F. O'Connell, E. O. Gourdin, C. S. Evans, and B. Wharton '22 loom up as the strongest contenders for places in the dash event, while E. T. Doherty '21, A. J. Fox Unc., and J. G. Winchester '23 have proved to be fast men in the mile. Other men who may place in the 300-yard dash are J. E. Kennedy, C. H. Hawes, and R. D. Howard of the 1923 relay team...