Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defense of the much maligned Harvard students, who in their efforts to protect an ungrateful public have brought down a flood of criticism upon themselves and Harvard, we wish to state that the cage is no Black Hole of Calcutta. Rather it is a depot where they await free transportation, furnished through the kindness of the Boston Police Department; their destination being the Station House where they await the arrival of their negligent parents. W. J. Henrich...
...County Fair, Kingston, N. C., a cat-washing contest was held last week. Superviser was D. Eugene Wood, famed Carolina sportsman, who claims to have seen a flight of white crows, who advocates stocking the State's eastern swamps with 10,000 goats to eliminate underbrush and provide new game. Excerpts from Sportsman Wood's cat-washing rules...
...Constance, Switzerland, on a trial flight of the 12-motored Dornier DO-X. Football Specials. Colonial Air Transport last week decided to operate special planes to Boston and New Haven for big football games there. Great Lakes Aircraft at Cleveland decided to send at least one plane to Ohio State University's major games at Columbus...
...greatest obstacle in the path of a United States of Europe is the existence of a regularly centralized, modern state in continental Europe today," said W. L. Langer '15, assistant professor in the department of History, when asked to comment on the consolidation of the states of Europe as proposed by Premier Briand. "The plan may have a beautiful ideal, but it seems to me to be utterly impracticable. There are too many obstructions that must be ironed out before anything can be done...
...feasibility of such an organization is greatly to be doubted. Europe is too broken up, too much a conglomeration of conflicting and opposing races, for such a plan to be carried out, at least at the present time. Each state is a single unit, highly centralized, composite; and there must be a tremendous change before it is possible to imagine a political union of nations, beyond what has so far been done in the formation of the League of Nations. And the organization is little more than a group gathered together with the purpose of preventing war, and settling disputes...