Word: needs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, on his way to St. Louis to talk with Colonel Lindbergh, said: "Lindbergh has performed feats of vast consequence to our nation. . . . But his task is finished. There is no need for him further to expose himself to the dangers that manifestly lurk in his path...
...happens that I am killed doing these things, I'm willing to make the sacrifice. But for the present there is no cause for worry. From now on until further notice I am in retirement. I need a rest in private life and am going...
Tandem Tubes. To get gamma rays to rush as fast from his tube as they do from radium, Dr. Coolidge would need about 2,000,000 volts of electricity. To get beta rays as penetrating as those from radium, he would need 3,000,000 volts. If he could create such voltages and if he could direct them properly, he would be, according to Philosopher Henri Bergson, at the heart of the world. Dr. Coolidge has succeeded in using 900,000 volts effectively. How he worked, he described to the engineers at Manhattan last week after receiving his latest medal...
...committee went on to say that by no means would they oppose a new chapel if the University was in real need of one. But, they claim, the University is in no need of a new chapel, and that a new chapel "would not be a lasting, artistic, inspiring, and suitable war memorial." In this attitude they believe they are supported by a majority of the alumni body...
...Consequently the reporter stepped into the breach, as a committee of one, and upon reaching Commander Byrd was confronted with the request for a pin. Confusion reigned until Abraham Lincoln, soon to appear with George Washington in a benefit tableau, extracted a pin from his costume and satisfied the need...