Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish I could do something great like save President Hoover's life. You know what I'd ask for when they asked me what I wanted for a reward? You know? A license, just a license. Boy, I'd be a millionaire inside of six months. I'd set up right opposite the University and could I make the dough...
...Benet in his 'John Brown's Body' set for himself a major task, accomplished it, and found recognition. His technical skill, his enthusiasm for his material, and his narrative power, are combined in a poem which has had phenomenal and merited success. Mr. Robinson's 'Tristran' and Mr. Benet's 'John Brown's Body' have brought to good poetry unprecedented popular acclaim in this country--a fact which should be significant in our literary history...
...that their ordeal is imposed for a matter of petty pride. Princeton, as I understand it, felt that Harvard was too high hat. Whether or not this complaint is well founded makes very little difference. It is never necessary to establish a complete case in order to set up a symbol. To Princeton, Harvard became the archtype or token of snobbery and superciliousness. And out of this idea came great benefits to young men who were the orange and the black...
...Department of Chemistry has acquired a fine new set of buildings. But they are not organized to the best advantage of the students. The hampering blunders of the storeroom attendants are symbols of short-sighted policy. Their comparatively minor annoyance is but another indication of the reactionary attitude which holds sway in the Department and prevents it from achieving the preeminence which other Harvard faculties maintain...
Helicopteroid. Under each wing of his Hamilton monoplane, Jess Johnson of Delray, Fla. fixed a 19-ft. air screw to turn horizontally as a helicopter vane. Last week at the Hamilton factory in Milwaukee, Mr. Johnson's co-worker Victor Allison, of West Palm Beach, set the vanes twirling. After pushing the plane for 25 yds, they raised her to 100 ft. off the ground. Then Mr. Allison turned on the regular propeller at the plane's nose. The machine rose to 1,000 ft., continued flying, an apparently successful demonstration of such a helicopteroid...