Word: soon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rendered a large portion of the alumni hostile to the new president. Because of his tact, honesty, and faith in the university, the breach was quickly healed. A natural reserve made it difficult for Dr. Faunce at first to enter into the life of the undergraduates, but this defect soon dwindled away because of his genuine desire to share the troubles and aspirations of young men. He has been in office longer than any other college president now living, and he approaches the end of his service honored and loved by all the students who have known...
...Year-Old. Every alert U. S. citizen remembers that President Woodrow Thomas Wilson was the Godfather of Czechoslovakia. Without his decisive intervention the new state might have been snuffed out as soon as born. But of course every Czech and Slovak knows that the Father of Czechoslovakia is Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, first and still President of the Republic...
Citizens of the U. S. have forgotten with what dread their revolutionary ancestors heard that Newfoundland had been made the war base of the British fleet. Soon the harbor of St. Johns teemed with captured U. S. merchantmen. In those days George Washington worried about what was happening in Newfoundland. Last week it was George V who worried...
...first time in history a prisoner described to thousands his sensations under "third degree." José de Leon Toral said tonelessly that he was suspended, swung and jerked by a rope binding his wrists and ankles behind his back, while policemen kicked him and predicted, "He'll soon sing...
Charles Curtis voted in Topeka, Kan. Then he went and stood at the grave of his wife. She had died four years too soon. He learned of the landslide on awaking aboard a train near Chicago. From President Coolidge he received a quirky little message: "... I regret that the country will not also have your distinguished services as a Senator...