Word: subs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officered by experienced men ready at all times to advise and assist the new hands; but, remarkable as was the achievement of these recruits, it was at least equalled by that of the college bred men who manned and successfully handled the little fleet of over one hundred sub-chasers that were sent "over there" to fight the elusive submarine. In my book, The Victory at Sea, a Chapter entitled American College Boys and Subchasers, opens with the following statement...
Coueism appears doomed before the new emancipator of the sub-conscious, whose teaching is even "more potent" than the reiteration of the Freshman. It is really too bad that the new sun should arise just as Coue himself had planned a long lecture tour, and was expected to arrive early in January, like a belated Christmas gift. The dictates of courtesy would have suggested perhaps that Dr. Gayer keep his discovery to himself until the self-styled father of auto-suggestion had had first...
...these days the picture changes almost every year. Financially, commercially, and agriculturally, as well as socially, the movements produced by the storm of war have by no means sub- sided, and their suddenness and violence is giving rise to new problems with startling rapidity. In the spring of 1920, for example the problem was: What to do about the high cost of living. Within a year the problem was: What to do about stabilizing demoralized markets. In the spring of 1920, the people of this country were wondering how production could not be increased to meet the demand for commodities...
...Pennsylvania, 14 Swarthmore, 6 Pennsylvania, 13 Navy, 7 Pennsylvania, 7 Alabama, 9 --- --- 87 22 Brown. Brown, 27 R. I. State, 0 Brown, 13 Colby, 0 Brown, 0 Syracuse, 0 Brown, 6 Lehigh, 2 Brown, 16 Boston Univ., 6 Brown, 0 Yale, 20 --- --- 62 28 Holy Cross. Holy Cross, 19 Sub. Base, 6 Holy Cross, 33 Providence, 3 Holy Cross, 0 Harvard, 20 Holy Cross, 14 Villanova, 0 Holy Cross, 7 Boston Univ., 7 Holy Cross, 6 Vermont, 0 Holy Cross, 10 Georgetown, 0 --- --- 89 36 Army. Army, 35 Springfield, 0 Army, 12 Lebanon Valley, 0 Army, 13 Kansas, 0 Army...
...like the proceedings of the Committee to be closed without referring to how much they owed to the labors of one individual, a gentleman who was not present that afternoon, and of whom he, therefore, might speak more freely. He referred to the American chairman of the technical sub-committee which had prepared the ground for all the decisions of the committee. He referred to Colonel Roosevelt...