Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When War came, Assistant Secretary Roosevelt worked harder than ever to make a good name for himself. He bought up all the supplies he could lay his hands on, borrowed binoculars from the country (and had them returned), helped build the submarine chasing "mosquito fleet," sponsored the North Sea mine barrage over stiff official opposition...
...detachment of academic life from real life at this time is too apparent to pass by without comment and I therefore make mine. The CRIMSON might follow the thing up a little--particularly along the line of adding this sort of thing to the House Plan. Edward Yeomans...
...Founded in 1888 by Jules Cousin, librarian of the arsenal of Paris. He gave the city his own immensely valuable collection of books and prints relating to Paris, which were housed in the palace where once lived that greatest ot letter writers, Mine de Sevigne. The Carnavalet gained world fame under the late great Georges Cain, who knew more about Paris than any man who ever lived, originated the plan, later adopted by museums of all sorts all over the world, of humanizing his exhibits by taking them out of show cases, placing them in completely furnished rooms...
...electrical engineering at six Japanese universities. "From Sendie in the North to Fuknoka in the South we were treated with the utmost courtesy at all times. From the time we landed on Nipponnese soil until we embarked for America again, we were always accompanied by former students of mine and being continually entertained by the people of the universities...
Stung by editorial criticism of his conduct of the Kentucky mine murder trials, Judge Henry R. Prewitt ruled that no representative of the Knoxville News-Sentinel (Scripps-Howard) may sit in his court "until that paper retracts the libelous, slanderous, false statements it has published about this and other Kentucky courts...