Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Political observers began to take stock of the legislative record of the Coolidge Administration, which from appearances has been none too successful...
...Forfeiture of none of the plants purchased for failure to live up to agreement; forfeiture under certain conditions of water power leases...
...Ships of several types should 'be built to fill up serious gaps in the fleet; notable among the types of ships of which none were at hand when the Fleet arrived at Panama were light cruisers, store ships, destroyer tenders, colliers, tugs, seaplanes, repair ships, lighter-than-air craft and miscellaneous auxiliaries...
...Nichols stopped in the middle of a sentence, leaned against the marble stand, and for a moment none realized what was happening. President A. A. Michelson and other scientists rushed to his side, ambulances were summoned, but the speaker was dead. The session was discontinued. Dr. Nichols was one of the most distinguished of American physicists. Born in Kansas in 1869 he was educated at the Kansas Agricultural College, Cornell University, Berlin, Cambridge, and held numerous honorary degrees. He taught at Colgate, Dartmouth, Columbia, became President of Dartmouth in 1909. Resigning in 1916 to become Professor of physics at Yale...
Here are Dr. Henry Van Dyke's impressions of Dr. Fitch's novel, "None So Blind" (Macmillan). He says: "Last night I stole some hours from sleep for a quick 'first reading' and was well repaid," The book is full of life and vigor. I do not know of a better picture of 'student life' at Harvard; which, I guess, is not essentially different from the life at other Eastern-American universities. The particular quality of the book is its insight into the personal nature of the development of a boy into a man in college years...