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...true eulogy of Washington is this mighty Nation. . . . What other great, purely human .institution, devised in the era of the stagecoach and the candle, has so marvelously grown and survived into this epoch of the steam engine, the airplane, the incandescent lamp, the wireless telephone and the battleship? . . . We should strive to identify the qualities in him that made our revolution a success and our Nation great. Those were the qualities that marked Washington out for immortality . . . Lexington . . . Concord . . . Bunker Hill . . . Valley Forge . . . Yorktown...
...linoleum floors are laid with "battleship" linoleum 1-4 inch thick, and the colors have been carefully selected to harmonize with the two tones of the walls and ceilings. The laboratories, research rooms, and offices have made use of this type of flooring, which combines utility and beauty.THE NEW HOME OF THE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY, located on Divinity Avenue, between the Farlow Library and Semitic Museum...
...orders of Captain Adolphus Watson, U. S. N., now Chief-of-Staff of the Battleship Division of the Pacific Fleet, have been modified to the extent that he will remain in his present capacity until released from duty by the Admiral upon the completion of the Fleet's present manoeuvers in the vicinity of Hawaii...
...being questioned, University officials declared that on the same day when newspapers stated that the French commander had left Newport on a battleship for France, Marshall Petain walked into University Hall with his host, whose identity has not yet been revealed...
...Army auctions, buying saddles, old band uniforms, boots and flags. Its 350-page catalog contains such items as: "U. S. A. 30-ton Hydraulic Jack, used for mounting heavy cannon, $30." Once, at a South American country's urgent request, Bannerman's changed a passenger steamship into a battleship in one week. The store also has large supplies of ammunition for sale. These are kept on Banner-man's Island, in the Hudson near Cornwall, N. Y. The Bannerman family spend vacations at this castellated arsenal but very seldom have visitors. A careless cigaret would blow the place to smithereens...