Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This will inevitably place the United States in an extremely delicate position. It may win back the prestige it held when Wilson was signing the Versailles Treaty, or it may, if it bungles, be placed in a most undesirable state of relationship with European nations. The situation is, in its potentialities, quite as serious as any since the war, for it is in its essence an attack on the policy of isolation. As such, it deserves profound consideration by the administration. Now that Hughes has left the cabinet, the possibilities of a repetition of the Opium Conference flasco...
...other half of the prize was given tr. Dr. Edwin Hubble of Mount Wilson Observatory for measurement of the distance to two remote spiral nebulae in Andromeda and Triangulum. He found in these nebulae numbers of variable stars. Measurement of the brightness of these stars established that they were 4,000 to 8,000 times as bright as the sun. From this date, he calculated the distance from the earth to those stars as 930,000 light years,* or about five and a half quintillion (5,500,000,000,000,000,000) miles. As compared to the belief of only...
...Hayne (capt.) '26 Unlimited C. H. Bradford '26 The Freshman team will line-up as follows: 115-pound Earl Dashoff 125-pound C. C. Goodrich 135-pound W. F. Green 145-pound C. C. Corson 158-pound Frederick Hodges 175-pound T. D. Howe Unlimited S. S. Wilson...
...charged, "dealing with Jefferson's administration. he said that the Federalists looked upon Jefferson as an atheist, a liar, and a demagogue" Professor Hart, in reply , stated that Jefferson's opponents did make such charges, and maintained that similar charges have been made in later days about Roosevelt and Wilson, the former of whom was his classmate at Harvard and a personal friend...
Unlimited Class--Won by S. S. Wilson by default. Only entry...