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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...during the War, the U. S. has plenty of destroyers, though these are aging.† But the U. S. quite lacks destroyer leaders-big, beamy head-ships for the destroyer squadrons (18 strong), built heavier and steadier for observation purposes and so that they can keep up with the main fleet at top speed in dirty weather. The proposed aircraft carriers are limited by the Washington Treaty of 1922 to a maximum of 27,000 tons each, a minimum...
...Conservative, and more and more that of Jefferson, the Republican. With the coming of the national convention of the people for nominating the president, the popular election of senators, the initiative, referendum, and recall the people have been tending toward supreme control of their officials. One of the main things in the way of this progressive movement is the appointment of the federal judiciary by the president. Until the people gain the right to elect their own judges the Hamiltonian principle that the people are not qualified to govern themselves will continue and progressive policies can never become dominant...
...minute stop at Montpelier, the State capital, to White River Junction on the New Hampshire borderline. Cheered at way-stations, drowned in noise at cities, it was a symbol of Vermont's recovery from her catastrophe of last autumn, the first through train over the State's main artery of transportation, the Central Vermont R. R. Among the officials who made speeches and took bows was Sir Henry W. Thornton, president of the Canadian National Railways, which put its assets at the Central Vermont's disposal to rebuild washed-out trestles, culverts, hill-shoulders...
...shoulder scar. He suggested that he could also straighten her legs for the $800. She consented. While he cut at the scar, Dr. Zaph (he says) worked thus: "The flesh [of a leg] was bared to the bone; an electric saw was used to cut wedges from the main leg bone, or tibia, and then the wound was sewed up. The limb was then placed in a cast and then left to straighten itself out as the wedge closed together." He added: "W'hen the patient left the operating table her condition was good." But gangrene set in, because...
...year; that the present Stadium, architecturally, is unrivalled, and that the proposed enlargement would make it a monstrosity, also unrivalled; that intercollegiate football is primarily for the undergraduates, not for the graduates; and that larger stadia place the emphasis on bigger and better athletics and so overshadow the main and essential function of a college education...