Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Late one afternoon, President Coolidge sniffed enjoyably at false spring in the misty February air. Leaving off his overcoat, he set forth for a walk-down West Executive avenue, around the ellipse, up the opposite side. Then he did something that Presidents very seldom do: he went calling on a Cabinet official...
...preoccupied to be interested in the suave social attentions of Miami's wealthy winter visitors. Had he not been the President-Elect, he would have been set down as snobbish. The Committee of One Hundred asked him to attend a splendid ball, to sit in a Presidential box, at the Nautilus Hotel in Miami Beach. A curtly polite "No thanks" came from the Penney estate. On the date set he planned to be inspecting the dreary Okeechobee district where 2,000 persons lost their lives in last year's flood and hurricane...
...human field where the theories may have consequences is in aviation. The airplane motor is operated by electricity set moving by the magneto and intensified by electro-magnetic coils. When the plane is on the ground electricity and its spark act in a definite fashion. Perhaps that fashion changes when the plane is high in the air?powerfully lifted against the earth's force of gravity and swiftly moved with or against earth's rotational force. The possibility of such change may account for some airplane accidents. Perhaps such possible changes can be foreseen, calculated, forestalled. Perhaps?not to venture...
Recently Harvard has been handicapped by the absence from its lineup of O'Connell, who was injured in Monday's game with Lowell Textile Institute. He is to play in the contest tonight, and with this fact reinforcing their determination, the Harvard men are set on gaining a victory in order to redeem themselves for defeats suffered during the last week at the hands of Dartmouth and the Massachusetts Agricultural College...
...overtime period spelled defeat last night for the Harvard hockey team when a hitherto un-hailed Boston Athletic Association sextet swept to a 6 to 4 victory in the Boston Arena. Lawless and Hardy rode on the crest of the wave that Channing Hilliard, brilliant B. A. A. wingman, set into motion when he made two unassisted goals in as many minutes early in the third period. The startling upset of the Crimson puckmen was wholly unexpected because of the comparatively easy 5 to 1 victory they achieved in a contest on January...