Word: started
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Constructive Start...
Immensely satisfied, the President said: "After many years of contention we have at last made a constructive start at agricultural relief. . . ." Soon he was again given cause for satisfaction. Congress appropriated the $150,000,000 required to start the machinery set up in the new law (see p. 12), to select "farm-minded" members of the New Federal Farm Board. There were some 200 candidates for these positions...
Chairman Requa got the conference off to an awkward start when he said: "If and when the Government has made it possible for the industry to cooperate and conserve and that co-operation and conservation are not forthcoming, then no one will be more insistent than myself in urging rigid government coercive regulation." The word coercive brought the industry to its feet in instant protest...
...world war caused a suspension of International contests but in 1921 Oxford and Cambridge sent a team to the Stadium the start of the biennial meetings. Harvard won that meet 8-2. Oxford and Cambridge won in London in 1923, by a score...
...often that the library has occasion to start a wholly new classification, but this has been made possible this year by a gift of several hundred finely printed books, made by philip Hofer, '21. The library has for at least two decades had an active interest in modern printing, of which the Charles Eliot Norton library contained a number of important examples. To these, specimens of the productions of such noteworthy presses as the Merrymount, Kelmscott, Ashendene, Daniel, and Dun Emer, have been added as funds permitted. Such accessions came at irregular intervals, however, and it was not until Professor...