Word: went
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commanding, turned to the rescue. The America's radio compass (a Kolster) contradicted the reports of position sent by Capt. Favaloro, but Capt. Fried followed his compass. All night long he sailed against tumultuous waters. During that night the bridge of the Florida, with all navigating books and instruments, went overboard. Capt. Favaloro managed to keep a sextant. In the morning he took his bearings, radioed them to Capt. Fried. The master of the America calculated them with his own navigating tables. The resulting position tallied with that indicated by the radio compass...
They recalled that the late, rich Quintin Hogg greatly interested himself in welfare work among poor children, as did his prospective bride. Therefore, in words once uttered by the Present Lord High Chancellor: "We have a family legend that when father and mother went on their honeymoon they took with them 30 ragged boys from London. Mother spent most of her time fielding point while the boys were learning to play cricket...
...Harvard, where he went in 1906 from his chaste Brookline home, Clarence Cook ("Pete") Little showed eager interest in science, in genetics, in the study of cancer. There in 1912, he took an M. S., two years later passed examinations for the doctorate of Science...
...science, keen, enthusiastic, President Little went into Maine like a lion and came out three years later still more leonine. Flaying Maine for being miserly towards education he left for Michigan to try "on a very large scale the educational policies which the state of Maine has not yet been willing to adopt" (TIME, July 13, 1925). Michigan, he thought, was willing. Last week he had to admit that it was unwilling...
...Michigan, President Little took several ideas. Michigan had a football team that was making money. President Little insisted that the surplus be turned over to building more athletic fields so that all men and women in the University could exercise. It was not those who went out for college teams who needed exercise, he thought; it was those of mediocre athletic prowess. There should be more games for more players, he said. Last year, the football team made a gross income of $773, 698.93, a net profit of $476,88.12. greatest in the University's history. All other sports showed...