Word: slide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...needed to settle such all-important questions as censorship, and the freedom of the press." When asked after the meeting to define "conservatives and radicals," he admitted that the average conservative is a man just too lazy to act; he is willing to stand pat, and let things slide as they are. A genuine conservative, however, is a man willing to tinker ahead slowly, experimenting as he goes along, trying to get a working principle, but ever advancing. The radical, on the other hand, is one who works as soon as he thinks, or even sooner...
Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., president of General Motors Corp., watched his new million-dollar yacht, Rene, slide into the water at Wilmington, Del. Rene is the diminutive of Mrs. Sloan's name (Irene...
...Coolidge's elbow, Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams in a stiff white collar, holding his white straw hat aloft with a gesture of dignified salutation, watched the new hull slide slowly down to the wet sea. The representative of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee saw nothing?neither the grey hull, the grey mist nor the white apparel. But he, blind Senator Schall of Minnesota (see p. 16), heard the patriotic whistles of the harbor shipping...
Stowaway. A would-be stowaway, remained behind in the Lakehurst guardhouse. He, one Morris Roth, 18, plumber's helper, of Trenton, N. J., was caught crawling along a high girder in the Lakehurst hangar. He had a 175-ft. rope with him and had planned to slide down it to the top of the Graf Zeppelin. The covering of the airship is of fabric. He might have broken through and caused disaster when she was in the air. The stowaway who crossed from Germany to the U. S., one Albert Buschko, 19, Dusseldorf baker's apprentice, was sent home...
...Brown, Harvard crew ceach, continued his policy of shifting the men on his first two University crews this afternoon. Lawrence Dickey '30, rowing at No. 5 in the second boat, went to No. 3 in the University shell, replacing R. I. McKesson '31, who took Dickey's empty slide in the second crew...