Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stand. Senator Shortridge overruled him. First witness was Clinton Lloyd Bardo, President of New York Shipbuilding Co., subsidiary of American Brown Boveri. He told of a conference in which Shearer had been hired to go to Geneva: "The instructions were that he was to go as an observer and report. He had no authority beyond that. We were to pay a third of the agreed amount of $25,000 for his compensation and expenses...
...wings off a ship, diving at 200 m.p.h. Floating down in his parachute he laughed at the episode and took up another stunting ship immediately. The Army Air Corps has a questionnaire which flyers must fill out after accidents. Last week, newspapers had fun printing Flyer Doolittle's report on his Cleveland mishap. The phrases were as short and compact as their author. His "description of method of leaving plane" was two words...
...compile the annual report for such an organization is a long, hard task. Every sale, down to the last of the year's 150,000,000 needle production, must be accounted for; every penny spent on advertising or axe-handles must be included. An army of accountants the world over must tussle for months with figures before stockholders may know what they have earned. Last week Singer's President, Sir Douglas Alexander, made public the annual report...
Last week report of his most recent work, on brain extracts, reached the general public by journalistic interpretation of a weighty article in last month's issue of Medizinische Klinik (Berlin). He de scribed very technically how he crushed the brains of tree frogs and from the juice se cured an extract which he called centronervin. That extract, when injected into the lymph systems and thence into the blood stream of live frogs stimulated them remarkably. It toned up their muscles, made them stronger, especially it seemed to speed up their reactions. Treated frogs saw flies more quickly than normal...
Many veterans are expected to report. Among these will be H. M. Hartnett '30, starting his second year as captain of the team, and R. C. Glenn '30, an outstanding player on last year's aggregation...