Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...close friend of Ambassador Herrick and newspaper partner of his son, Parmely Herrick, called at the White House to tell President Coolidge that Ambassador Herrick would soon be well enough to return to Paris. President Coolidge let it be known that when Ambassador Herrick is ready to resume his post, instructions will be ready for him in the matter of the Briand proposal, instructions looking toward a treaty's adoption...
Under the title "Treat Us Like Men," Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton College discusses, in the current Saturday Evening Post, the vagaries of the undergraduate mind, conscience, and particularly the sense of liberty. It is a wise and humorous treatment of a subject which must have driven many a dean in many college to the borders of insanity-the student who, when haled into court for over-cutting or neglect of studies, waves the banner of liberty and demands to be treated like a man; and who, when confronted later with some such item as a bill for broken furniture...
...Clark '29, at left tackle, was another who resigned his post to a Sophomore arriving late at the field. J. E. Barrett '30, Clark's understudy all season, filled the berth at the close of the work...
...loves the Navy that he dared accuse it of large faults, received a shock. He and most other people had supposed the recent "Magruder Incident" was closed (TIME, Oct. 10). Now came a curt telegram from Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur, detaching Admiral Magruder from his post at the Philadelphia Navy Yard...
...minute; forward speed, achieved by tilting 50 to 70 m.p.h. Dropping with motors dead, the revolving wings drag heavily; elminate landing crashes. Also eliminated are long landing fields. Mail officials were deeply interested, pointing out that the invention if practicable, could drop directly on post-office building roofs. The inventor is Maitland B. Bleecker...