Word: owning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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At noon one day last week President Hoover walked solemnly from the Cabinet Room through the short passage to his own office. Behind him came a small procession of House and Senate leaders. The President seated himself at his broad desk, hitched his chair closer, reached out and drew to...
"I have never been a diplomat. I have many faults, but somehow, I am sure you will put up with them, as have my own people."
And yet one boy, who contributed nothing to the success of the trip and almost turned it to disaster, writes his own account of the flight and the American people read it avidly, admire his nerve, and save up confetti for his reception when he returns to New York. The...
Charles Whitney Gilkey: Professor of Preaching at the University of Chicago: an exemplar of his own teaching.
Midway in time between these two extremes, the ear has brought to Harvard a large collection of eighteenth century English fiction Some of these books have been "collector's items," additions to the shelves devoted to the outstanding literary lights, but by far the more important portion comprises long forgotten...