Word: sections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aeronautics. The chief fighting matter before the convention was Col. William Mitchell's aviation charges. A large section of the convention was for taking a stand directly behind. A bitter contest was feared. The Aeronautics Committee struggled for three days with the question of formulating a resolution. It turned out finally an endorsement of Col. Mitchell's plan for a single Department of National Defense with coequal Army, Navy and Air branches. The convention endorsed this and saved a fight...
Special stands are being erected in order to accommodate the large number of Freshmen expected to attend the 1929-Exeter football game on Soldiers Field next Saturday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. The Student Council Committee on Freshman Affairs are also arranging to have the Freshman cheering section led by four of the University cheerleader candidates...
...Germany at once into the League of Nations, with the rights and obligations of a member state; Force Germany to make arbitration treaties between herself and the Allied powers; as well as treaties mutually guaranteeing her western frontiers with Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, and providing for arbitration in that section also...
...Exact calculation shows that if we had five trillion cables of steel, each a foot in diameter and the steel capable of lifting thirty tons to the square inch of the cross section, this whole giant forest of steel cable would be stretched to the breaking point to hold the moon in its orbit about the earth. To hold the earth in its orbit about the sun would require an 11-inch cable of such steel on each square foot of hemispherical cross section of our globe, which practically would cover the earth's surface with such a forest...
Shouting the names of Aulich, Schimetitsch, Kirchmeyer and Wiberg, the Columbia cheering section, supported by a large turnout of oi-polloi, saw its team squash Johns Hopkins...