Word: maines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insurance be granted those on flying duty; that the aviation reserve be strengthened. 3) That similar actions be taken in the Navy Department. Armed with this program, Congress set the ponderous wheels of lawmaking into motion, and during the session just closed passed three bills following, in the main, Mr. Morrow's recommendations. Last week the President signed the last of these bills-the formidable Army Air Bill authorizing an expenditure of $150,000,000 over a period of five years, at the end of which 2,200 first-class fighting planes are to have been built. There...
...wonderfully retentive, orderly mind, was just the man to synthesize the welter of facts pouring in on all sides. He undertook to demonstrate the principle of evolution working through all the forms of thought in Francis Bacon's "province." His theory often outran his data but in the main he preserved for philosophy its touch with things practical. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was "the child of Darwin and the brother of Bismarck." He sought to "correct" his pious, feminine nature by glorifying ruthless masculinity, the survival of the strongest. He ascended the Engadine and sent down his poetic prophet...
John Hanson Thomas Main: President of Grinnell College, who has stamped his constructive thought upon a leading college of the Middle West...
...former Comptroller of the University, were awarded honorary degrees of Master of Arts. The Degree of Doctor of Laws was awarded to six men, Joseph Lee '83, philanthropist and social service worker, George Gray Sears '85, physician, Thomas Nelson Perkins '91, lawyer and international economist, John Hansen Thomas Main, President of Grinnel College, George Fisher Baker '99, financier, and Andrew William Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury...
...main body of the tower which rests like a tank on the pavilion, is surmounted a steeple inspired by that of the Park Street Church in Boston. The Park Street steeple has been much and justly admired: but it is difficult to see why it should stand on this tower or why the tower should be so extraordinarily mounted and placed with regard to the body of the church. As already suggested, the plan is probably only tentative. If it isn't it ought to be, in the interest of Harvard's esthetic future...