Word: went
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that profession?" He meditated a moment, and then replied: "I see your point." And he agreed with me that while a good military school or staff college cannot guarantee the quantity production of Napoleons and Lees, it can and does produce competent officers of high professional spirit. I went on to say that even what he called "mere technical knowledge" goes a long way in forming successful character. It is basic for judgment; it enhances courage by dispelling baseless fears. If you will define and analyze "gumption," you will find that knowledge and training play their part in it. Indeed...
...waters of the Severn River, Md. (TIME, Aug. 26). Around the diamond-shaped course the six planes raced. Monti and Cadringher were forced down. Atcherly, favorite, was disqualified for cutting a pylon. Sped the others - Waghorn at 328.63 m. p. h. for the course. That won. Italian dal Molin went 284.20 m. p. h.; Grieg, 282.11 m. p. h. The winning plane was a supermarine Rolls-Royce. Fast was Flyer Waghorn, but not fastest of the day. Atcherley was officially credited with 332.49 m. p. h. in another supermarine Rolls-Royce. Later all contestants made ready to surpass that record...
...Ensign Clarence E. Coffin Jr., U. S. N., went the congratulatory letter from President Hoover, the Crescent Cup, the Army Ordnance Trophy (a .30-calibre rifle), the National Rifle Association medal. He had scored...
Last month, along with 48 other selected "bright boys," one Charles H. Brunissen of West Redding, Conn., went to West Orange, N. J., and answered the long lists of questions whereby Thomas Alva Edison, aided by the U. S. press, sought to find the most eligible young man in the U. S. to become his understudy (TIME, Aug. 12). After answering Mr. Edison's questions, Charles Brunissen said he thought many of them were "senseless, idiotic." Then he learned that though he had not won the contest, with its prize of a four-year scholarship at Massachusetts Institute...
...John Callahan actually scaled the 20-ft. wall of Manhattan's Tombs with tenacious hands and feet. Two keepers conducting one Dr. Theodore Gallaudet to the same bleak prison were magnificently wined-dined by their prisoner en route. In their stupor he left the restaurant on a pretext, went to Havana and Paris where his family joined him, lived happily and immune thereafter...