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White Star Plans. However, as Mr. Bruce said this, the White Star Line's London office announced plans for a new liner approximately 1,000 feet long, bigger than its Majestic and swifter than the Cunard Mauretania. As soon as one of the slips at Queen's Island, Belfast, is vacant, the new ship's keel will be laid...
...white goal posts where the magic carpet ends Devereux Milburn, grey veteran of every International match since 1909, U. S. captain. Opposite were Major Austin H. Williams, Capt. C. T. I. Roark and Capt. Claude E. Pert, British No. 1, unconventionally drawn back a little to get a swifter rush when the white willow ball, tossed between the teams, began the play. Behind, Major Eric G. Atkinson guarding the far goal posts...
...there and here swift taxis swifter rushing...
...Swifter to change than the customs is the scope of U. S. Education. In 1900, about 14,000 bachelor's degrees were conferred. In 1910, 22,687 degrees. In 1920, 38,552. In 1922, 47,854. In 1924, about 76,000. In 1900, the colleges graduated one person for every 5,400 of the country's population. In 1910. the ration...
...must always be attacked, just as one feels free to criticise the Constitution or the White Mountains. It is the price always paid for strength and excellence, above all for the steady resistance to dogma, religious, political and economic; it is the sharp wind that blows the harder, the swifter and the better the ship. Harvard as a spiritual entity whose function is to teach and haply to educate the youth, asks nothing better than to be counted a worker in our American Commonwealth, but as such entity cannot and must not have its facts manufactured for it, its thoughts...