Word: united
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work around which to build the various activities of the Federation. Such structural work, begun last year, was developed further at the Congress. More important, it was decentralized to a certain extent by the basis laid for regional work last week-end. Top heavy, centralized organization in a geographical unit of the size of the United States would lay the Federation open immediately to all sorts of objections which are too obvious to be detailed. This snare, again, the N. S. T. A. has avoided...
...Foot Guards, comprising the Grenadier Guards, the Coldstream Guards and the Scots, Welsh and Irish Guards are perhaps the most glamorously traditional of any extant fighting unit. Recently Londoners turned out by the tens of thousands as the Regiments of Guards assembled in their bright uniforms and beneath their 18-inch bearskin hats for the dedication of the Guards Memorial. Field Marshal H. R. H. the Duke of Connaught, uncle of the King-Emperor, unveiled the Guards Monument, taking in his hand as he did so the hand of General Higginson. Londoners cheered the Royal Duke and the Centenarian General...
...tons of goods for each mile of transportation furnished. In Africa where blackamoor porters still carry freight on their backs, each is capable of but 152 ton-miles a year. I explained the three basic means of transportation-horse-drawn (having lost ground long since); the self-contained unit (steam engine); the central power plant with ropes of power stretching out (electric engines). I predicted the long continuance of the second of these, the steam locomotive, as the dominant means of accomplishing the main purpose of the railroad-the transportation of heavy articles over long distances. Electricity will supplant steam...
...Congress to "enable the farmers to control and manage excess of crops at their own expense, so as to secure cost of production with reasonable profit." They approved of the Federal Farm Board plan, backed by Frank O. Lowden of Illinois. They defended the farm bloc as a political unit. Just as onetime Governor Lowden is the potent friend of farmers in the Republican party, so is Edwin T. Meredith, Iowa farm journal publisher, onetime Secretary of Agriculture, their Democratic friend. If, by some upheaval of politics, the farm bloc should gain control of both parties, these two men might...
...individual, but for the ability of the team, that the game is founded on the perfect functioning of a machine in which the individual player is submerged, that the success of a team depends on the ability of eleven men to fuse themselves, mind and muscle, into a unit for a struggle with another group of eleven men who also strive not for personal glory, but for co-operative success. This dinner supports an entirely different thesis. It hoists the individual into the limelight and ignores the other ten men on his team to whom he knows what measure...