Word: went
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a notable evening address there was, particularly Professor Krogh's. He complained that thousands of physiological investigations went on each year, that thousands were being reported, that thousands were useless, that no one was able or inclined to analyze and synthesize the work done. He urged international co-operation to abstract useful findings...
...lights, music, refreshments and "admission by ticket only" resembled June Class Nights. Next day and each subsequent day of the week, busses carried the delegates across the Charles River to the Harvard Medical School, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and the Boston High School of Commerce where the scientific sessions went on. Some points made...
Chunky, jovial, rich Juan de la Cierva, 33, inventor of the autogiro, debarked at Manhattan last week, met his serious, rich friend Harold F. Pitcairn, 32, and went down to the latter's city, Bryn Athyn, Pa., near Philadelphia. There the Spaniard, who lives in England most of the time, stripped off his coat and near the Swedenborgian Church which Mr. Pitcairn and his two brothers are building according to their late father's bequest, made the first autogiro flight...
...Marblehead, Mass. last week went a freak. High boomed she was, and with a prodigious spinnaker. U. S. yachtsmen, eyeing her sagely, restrained titters. Her owner and skipper, Capt. Eric Lundberg, a portly Swede, smiled obscurely. All this was before the races...
...director of 44 corporations, 20 aviation companies), which roared on lustily to win the gold cup, prime trophy of U. S. speedboating. Imp won all three heats, in the first attained a speed of 51.9 m.p.h., fastest gold cup time since restrictions on engine-power and hull-size went into effect eight years...