Word: set
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four hundred Republicans in Boston loudly applauded the President's No. 6 Man. But in Washington there was no applause. The speech made raw nerves rawer, set Senators and observers to wondering if President Hoover, through his No. 6 Man, had attempted to start a backfire of popular resentment against the Senate...
...third thing the President did to set the stage for renewed international negotiations. He gave up his customary weekend fishing trip, called in Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams to learn what progress U. S. experts were making in developing a "yardstick." Through Secretary Adams he ordered the Navy's 1931 budget estimates held up at the department instead of being forwarded to the Treasury. The President postponed the estimates for two months in the expectation that within that time a new basis for naval reduction will be found...
...Sherwin has tried to put on the screen a real moving picture of this life, taking John Gay as his central figure. Evidently a scholar whose acquaintance with his material has not been gained solely in text-books and Hogarth's prints, he has tried to set down some of the more intimate aspects of the life of the day, and has succeeded to a certain extent. If the reader himself has a vivid imagination, he may put Mr. Sherwin's pictures in his mind's eye and build up out of them a fine scene of rum and riot...
...twenty years that this department has been in existence have largely been devoted to experiments. The Faculty has by trial and error delimited its field of instruction, set up within this field an organized curriculum, developed methods of teaching and teaching material...
...Kieselhorst, 1930, of St. Louis, Mo., was elected captain of the University track team at a meeting today. Kieselhorst, who prepared at Andover, runs the 100 and the low hurdles. In the latter event he won his second consecutive Intercollegiate title on Saturday at Philadelphia. In this event he set a new record at 23, 3-10 seconds, but the mark was not allowed to stand on account of a favoring wind...