Word: responding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Practically, the scheme is so novel in its conception that it will undoubtedly fill the bowl. An additional feature which will assure large attendance is the fact that a substantial reduction in the price of tickets will be made, thus enabling a larger portion of the student body to respond to Mr. Young's call which was addressed to the members of the universities. At the same time Harvard's refusal to join the concert of powers 'although defensible is not understandable.' It is certainly a great shame that Harvard could not see her way to become a member...
...Quick to respond to word of great distress in hurricane-devastated Belize (see p. 19), President Hoover ordered the Navy to rush assistance by plane from the Canal Zone, mobilized the help of the Red Cross...
Tough Mr-Mollison. A Gipsy-Moth biplane plunked sloppily down upon the gravel beach at Pevensey Bay, England, tipped up on end, flopped back on its haunches and rested. Out of the cockpit crawled a haggard Scotsman, one James A. Mollison, 25, to respond fully to the questions of an excited little crowd. Eight days and 21 hrs. prior he had left Australia, 10,000 mi. away. Every day he had forced his small plane along to the limit of his own endurance, sleeping an average of two hours each night. Night before he had taken off from Rome into...
...that Jean Henri Dunant published in 1862 a booklet, Un Souvenir de Solferino, lamenting the carnage of Italy's war against Austria, urging the formation of volunteer societies to remove wounded men from battlefields, hoping all military leaders would "agree upon some sacred international principle." First to respond was President Gustave Moynier of Societe Genevoise d'UtilitéPublique, who organ- ized an international meeting at Geneva in 1863 where international Red Cross principles were formulated. Next year was held a diplomatic conference with 26 Governments represented. Here was drafted the Geneva Convention, here adopted the red-crossed...
...remarkable growth in exchange fellowships since the World War is a healthy sign that education is tending to become more internationalized. Doubtless the struggle had a great effect in awakening Americans to an interest in foreign institutions, and other nations have not been slow to respond. Already well over 1,500 traveling scholarships are awarded annually by student exchange agencies...