Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jakko Mikkola, University cross-country coach, expressed complete satisfaction with the condition of his men, in a statement to the CRIMSON yesterday. When asked if he laid much credit to the Finnish Baths which have been tried out this year, he replied: "It is hard to pick any one point which may affect the success or failure of a runner, but there can be no doubt that Finnish baths tend to take away stiff ness in a man's joints and make the muscles supple, and these are two valuable assets to the men. I think the system should...
Then the defense began to call its witnesses. The first called was Brigadier General Amos A. Fries, Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service. He was called to refute a statement by Brigadier General Hugh A. Drum, Assistant Chief of Staff, that it would take 5,530 airplanes and 9,573,000 pounds of mustard gas to force the evacuation of the District of Columbia. General Fries believed that 1,000 airplanes and 40,000 pounds of tear gas would get rid of the civil population. Major Carl Spatz, D.S.C., flyer, told the Court that Air service equipment is "obsolete...
...contest the Yale backfield was under oath to kick anything over the bar that wasn't imported, to send every pass out to the sidelines, and to kill all the Scotch on the field. The Harvard team swallowed hard but made no statement. It was fortunate that none was asked for, Harvard was thinking of the Old Army Game...
...altogether practical use has been found for the radio. Science has discovered, according to a report, that the best way to learn facts is to listen to a statement of them while one is asleep. It is given as proof that a Terre Haute mechanic with only the most rudimentary education has, by clamping radio phones to his ears, learned the binomial theorem, select passages from American history, some irregular French verbs, and yards upon yards of poetry all while he was fast asleep...
...There are three things I want to say tonight," declared the Harvard leader. "I want to express my appreciation and gratitude for the enthusiasm and self-sacrifice of the Second team." This statement was followed by a long cheer for the Seconds...