Word: moments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...board to investigate previous awards of the Congressional Medal of Honor. The board disallowed all 864 medals promised those of the 27th Maine Volunteer Infantry who would re-enlist in 1863, but given even to those who went home. Also canceled were the 29 Medals bestowed in a moment of patriotic inadvertence on Lincoln's funeral escort. The board also rescinded Dr. Walker's award. No civilian has ever received the Medal legally. Charles Augustus Lindbergh rated one because he had belonged to the reserve air force long before his Paris flight.-ED. Sirs...
...tacit consent of Kate's husband, the fatuous dandy, Captain William O'Shea. Aspiring to political position which he can gain only through Parnell's favor, O'Shea makes himself so universally disliked that a breach arises in the Irish Party on the eve of their triumph, at the moment when Gladstone has tentatively promised to introduce the Home Rule Bill. Sensing the division in the Irish ranks, the "old fox" manages to split the leaders from Parnell by asserting that he cannot do anything for a cause which is captained by a notorious libertine. Parnell is cast...
...Within a few days most of these will receive contracts for making machine tools and gauges, necessary before any large-scale munitions program can be undertaken. Air Force. Within the past twelve months 1,500 new pilots have been enlisted. "But what we are interested in at the present moment," said Sir Thomas, "is the provision of aircraft for the use of this personnel." All British automobile plants have been canvassed, the Government promising to subsidize any that will build new airplane factories or extend their present plants to make room for airplane production. Food. A subcommittee on food conservation...
Maintenance Department men are at the moment engaged in filling up the hole made in searching for the well, making connections with the city water system, and putting in a cement platform at the bottom of the spring. On this platform will sit an iron tank filled out of the city mains on a float system. From the tank water will be taken by a wooden pump, a replica of the old one. Pieces for this were purchased in various parts of New Hampshire, and the average age of the new water lifter should be 20 years...
This is an appropriate moment in the history of the world to celebrate the idea of a university and to take the occasion to define and to reaffirm most especially the basic relation between teaching and scholarship on the one hand, the power and the policies of government on the other. The Harvard anniversary is a most suitable occasion. For Harvard stands unqualifiedly for the principle that unless they are independent of each other the relation between universities and governments will not be healthy...