Word: united
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...producing machine the vast population of the earth cannot be supported even in the simplest mode of life. To change the present order into one of production fitted to the "human needs of the producer" as well as the community would mean practically a return to the family producing unit, long since discarded as impossible for sustaining life. Finally, repudiating personal gain as an economic motive is a thing more easily said than done. At present that is admitted to be the most powerful force at work in turning the wheels of industry. Unless some other force is found...
...definite step in the extension of athletics at Harvard was made last year when the R. O. T. C. Unit, under the administration of Major Goetz, organized a polo team. The results were very disappointing but little could be expected with the handicap of inexperienced men and the lack of a riding hall for bad weather practice. Major Goetz made every effort to arouse interest in the construction of such a building, but it was felt that money should not be put into the enterprise until the necessity for such a structure was definitely proven, and until a general interest...
Commissioner Haynes called on President Coolidge. They were closeted for two hours. On leaving, Mr. Haynes said the President had expressed himself as being "highly gratified" with the work of the Prohibition Unit...
...York corporation lawyer. Like William MeFee, he was born on the ocean. Some of his early youth was spent in England, where he went to school for a time. He attended Harvard but was not graduated. His War record is somewhat complicated. He enlisted in the Morgan-Harjes ambulance unit. His section was in the big attack around Verdun and Mort Homme in 1917. After the ambulance section broke up, he attempted to enlist in the Army but was rejected because of defective eyesight. He went to Italy, drove an ambulance up and down Mt. Grappa during the height...
...horses have more reserve power available than was believed. They can exert from six to ten times as much power for a short time as they ordinarily use, without injury. The horsepower was defined by James Watt, inventor of the steam engine, 150 years ago, and is a practical unit in measuring the energy that one horse can expend continuously throughout a working day; but it takes no account of the reserve power over short periods, which may amount, as the tests show, to more than 10 h.p. per animal...