Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...October 14 there was incorporated, following a nation-wide aeronautical convention at Detroit, the National Aeronautical Association, an organization national in scope, aiming at the unification of aeronautical thought and the development of commercial aviation...
...instances; a pole-vaulter who may never before have held even a broom-stick in his hand, or a sprinter who never knew how his chasing after fire-engines in his youth had helped him for college. Compulsory Freshman athletics Las proved so beneficial that some regret that its scope is not broader; that Sophomores, as at other colleges, if not all undergraduates, are not compelled to take part. We again refer to the lethargic few who like to exercise but who have not the necessary energy to take the plunge without prodding...
...duty of the consular Service is to protect the interests of the Government in foreign countries and to extend and protect American trade. It differs in its scope from the Diplomatic service, which is the medium for the conduct of international affairs, but, as a result of its close relation to the various government departments, offers a valuable opportunity for the study of foreign customs, international, maritime, and commercial laws, political and commercial geography, and other subjects of diplomatic interest...
...years or more in various fields of endeavor. As an undergraduate, both a scholar and an athlete of unusual ability; as a medical student, ever keen and useful; as doctor, a friend of all whom he helped; as coach an inspiration to his charges, Seldom does one man's scope of usefulness cover such an extensive field. His war service with the First Harvard Unit was a credit to the University as well as to himself. As a member of various committees on athletics and as doctor in charge of the football team his services to the College were inestimable...
...coming to New York in 1912, the association took its greatest step in transferring its scope from the west and more especially the Middle West to the entire nation, and now the Associated Harvard Clubs has grown to comprise considerably more than a hundred clubs in the United States, in Canada, in Europe and in the Far East...