Word: beacon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman crew defeated the Seniors in the Beacon Cup Regatta Yesterday. The Freshmen covered the mile and seven-eighths course in 10 minutes and four seconds. With the Seniors a length and a quarter behind...
...ship is unable to stop in time to prevent a collision she is going too fast for the conditions, yet in this unique instance there are many extenuating circumstances. The "Olympic" which had navigated form Liverpool by dead reckoning until she was able to ascertain her position from radio beacons on this coast, was proceeding toward the Nantucket Lightship guided by its radio beacon, planning to alter course as soon as she passed the light. The usual procedure in such cases is to determine the proximity of the light by the increasing strength of the radio and submarine signals...
Robert Homans '94, a member of the Harvard Corporation, one of Boston's most eminent barristers, and a director in many large business enterprises here in the East, passed away yesterday in his home at 33 Chestnut Street, Beacon Hill, at the age of 61 years...
...total to only 39. From Mitchel Field, piloting his own observation plane, the General proceeded to Newark Airport, to Cleveland, to Chicago, to St. Louis. He found two-way radios with ranges up to 400 mi. were being installed on Army planes. Landing lights were being attached. Beacon signals were being improved and a teletype weather reporting system was nearly com plete. Old-type observation ships were being outfitted with artificial horizons, di rectional gyroscopes, new compasses and flight instruments. Work was progressing feverishly on new bombers in the Martin factory near Baltimore. . His inspection trip convinced General Foulois that...
Keith Boston--"Coming Out Party." Hollywood's idea of debutantes should thrill the proletariat and amuse the initiated. Dunster House Beacon Street, and Chelsea will like it for strangely differing reasons...