Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They ordered transmitted to all League member states the text of a Finnish proposal to establish a credit of $40,000,000, any portion of which might in case of war be extended under League auspices to any state adjudged "the victim of aggression." Thus instead of possessing an army of soldiers to enforce peace, the League would have "an army of dollars." Finns hope that this ambitious proposal will be adopted when the League Assembly meets next September...
...Wrigley, exclaimed incredulously: "Why the Captain always left his razors and soap-filled brush for me to put away. And I used to take his boy for walks! A little tyke he was, and always talking about his daddy's exploits. I'm fair astonished! Blown, as you might say. How could anyone who wasn't at Mons know all the Captain knows about...
...councils and assemblies only male voices had been heard. Why not the mellifluence of female voices? Hitherto from Presbyterian pulpits only male voices had preached the Gospel, pointed the moral. Why not have female ministers? Prim reactionary Presbyterians shuddered at the thought that the Princeton or Auburn Theological Seminary might become coeducational. Advanced non-alarmist thinkers like Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, President of Union Theological Seminary, Manhattan, said: "I welcome the proposal . . . that women be given an equal standing with men in the church." The Proposal. In Philadelphia, 140 years ago, met the first general assembly of the Presbyterian church...
...attention of the Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee it came that unprincipled footballers have been blowing up their balls in strange shapes-with irregular snouts that might be used as handles in forward passing; with fat sides to make punts fly short and crookedly. The committee announced last week, through Chairman Edward Kimball Hall, that a new apparatus will be used in future to measure pigskins put in play. The correct football will have "a circumference of its short axis from 22 to 22½ inches (a half inch less than last year), length of long axis from...
...call money rates, the banks generally maintain that there is no way of keeping money out of Wall St. Mr. Warburg's statement did not much annoy the speculators, who were inclined to take it as an admission that they controlled the situation, however deplorable such control might be from Mr. Warburg's standpoint...