Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much for ways and means. The best general advice that can be given to a Freshman at this moment is to try the examinations on Saturday, guess at the probable outcome with a rather pessimistic attitude, and arrange his course so as to meet some part of the requirements this year. If the outcome of the examinations is contrary to his expectations, he has until October 10 to drop or add courses free of charge...
...President Coolidge, Mrs. Coolidge, John Coolidge, two white collies, two chows, Rebecca Raccoon arrived in Washington. At the station to meet the Presidential party were Cabinet Members Mellon, Kellogg, Jardine and Sargent. After handshakes and animal pat-tings, the Coolidges and their companions got into several limousines and swept rapidly through the Capital. Rob Roy, veteran collie, disturbed the ride with bounds, plunges, whines; shedding his white hair on formal apparel, then, he pressed his cold nose against the glass, to get a first glimpse of the White House. Arriving, he bolted down the corridor, into the elevator; jumped...
...Duties. Typical of the increases are the following: magnetos, which paid seven francs a kilogram, are now assessed 80 francs a kilogram ? increase 1,100%; fountain pens, admitted on a tariff of five francs a pen, must pay 80% on their value; electrical equipment for automobiles must meet a levy increased by 800%; magneto breaker points and distributors, 1,300% increase; spark plugs, 800% increase. It is to be noted that all these articles are manufactured by Germany...
...human happiness, outside of scientific circles, would not necessarily be reduced if, for say ten years, every physical and chemical laboratory were closed and the patient and resourceful energy displayed in them transferred to recovering the lost art of geting together and finding a formula for making the ends meet in the scale of human life...
...delegates decided, definitely, that the Union would meet next July in Berlin...