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...yesterday's practice session, the University squad went through more than an hour's dummy scrimmage against a typical Holy Cross passing attack, as demonstrated by an eleven composed entirely of coaches. All the Crimson backs got a chance to show their ability in breaking up the Purple aerial combinations. Although the coaches succeeded in completing a considerable number of their tosses, the University defense appeared to be faster and more wide awake than it has shown itself in the two contests played so far this year...
...assembled in Marfa for athletics, a review and a horse show. Troopers were paid off and sent back to their stations while officers continued to argue about which "army" had "won." Among other stratagems weighed for merit was that of dyeing white horses brown to camouflage them from aerial observation. Other modern cavalry camouflage: dull metal mountings on harness; dun netting to dull the flash of shiny saddle seats...
...army tanks, was exhibited last week on Salisbury Plain, England. Any member of a tank crew could operate it. Fine tuning had been eliminated by employing low frequency waves and a powerful, seven-tube superheterodyne receiver. Padded headphones protected the listener from internal and external din. The aerial, a hollow aluminum rod ten feet high, was equipped with a spring hinge to let it fold on the tank roof going under trees or bridges, rise erect again when they were passed...
...plane was dropping due to poor fuel feed, which boded a shortage. Near the sea's surface, the clog in pump or fuel line cleared up under the increased atmospheric pressure of the lower altitude. But so close to the sea had they dropped that the radio aerial trailed in the waves, was torn...
...candidate for the presidency of the U. S. by the Equal Rights Party, was defeated. Shortly after the two sisters removed to England where Victoria became Mrs. John Biddulph Martin; Tennessee, the wife of Sir Francis Cook. In 1914 Mrs. Martin helped to organize the Women's Aerial League of England, offered $5,000 and a trophy for the first aviator to make a transatlantic flight. Tennessee Claflin Cook died...