Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Very obviously this is an unfortunate and almost tragic state of affairs. That the words of intelligent men, thinkers of real insight and some practical ability, should be unable to reach the ears of the powers that be is due largely to those two superstitions of our political leaders, silence and economy. Senators and other party leaders will perhaps read the report of the Columbia specialists, but what effect will their words have on the settlement of the debts? Almost certainly they will have none. The debts have come to have a bitter, almost raucous note in conversation. Forty...
...definite lineup has been chosen. It is conceded, however, that W. P. Ellison '27 and Willard Howard '28 are the outstanding defense players. Ellison's tremendous reach, weight and aggressiveness make him most effective. Howard, out last year due to an injury received in baseball, has taken up his old position and has shown his former speed and ability to smash up the attack...
Interviews with employing officers of large companies who come to Cambridge annually will be arranged. Alumni and business men have volunteered to see those men who have not as yet chosen their careers and to help them reach a decision...
General Umberto Nobile, designer and navigator of the first airship to reach the North Pole, said recently to a CRIMSON reporter, "I find it hard to believe that Sir Hugh Frenchard could have made such a statement about aviation. It is true that he may have meant that flying at present is evil because it increases the taxation of European peoples. Or he may have had in mind the destructive potentialities of airplanes in war. But aviation an evil in itself, no, I cannot think that he meant that. The statement refutes itself. No flyer would ever say such...
...would yield, like an overpacked trunk when a big woman sits on its lid. Slowly she bashed her way up the St. Mary's, freed this ship and that, brought food and fuel to sailors. With continued cold, she may not reach all ships; some may be frozen tightly until spring...