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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poetical values are, after all, values, in a human life," he continued. "You cannot mark them off from other human values, as though the nature of man were built in bulkheads; as though there were a department of poetry hermetically sealed, a kind of padded room of aesthetic so effectively sound proof that the ravings of poesy are unable to disturb either the moral sense in us or the instinct for truth...
...near Washington, N. H., the old sanitation unit suddenly became a menacing plague spot. Some 100 boys at the camp were threatened with infection. What was to be done? An ingenious, tinkering counsellor, one Gordon Russell Whittum of Worcester, Mass., hurriedly destroyed the old unit, upon a concrete base built a clean, self-sanitizing latrine...
...build two experimental dirigibles, the R-100 (709 ft. long) and the R-101 (730 ft. long), both huger than the Graf Zeppelin. Purpose of construction was to prove that airships would be useful to travel between the widely separated British dominions. In anticipation mooring masts have been built at Cardington, England (where the R-100 was put together), at Ismailia, Egypt, Karachi, India (where there is a hangar), Groutville, South Africa, and St. Hubert, Canada. As both ships were nearing completion this summer, dire were the prophecies that they were not airworthy, that they would crack up. So impoverished...
...They've taken eight boilers out of her, and replaced them with two to do the same work. That shows you what steps have been made in engineering since she was built in 1907," he continued. "Right now we are cleaning the ship up, and preparing for visitors on Navy Day, which will be celebrated Monday, October...
...Oglala" has had an interesting history. It was first built in 1907 as a passenger and freight boat for the Eastern Steamship Lines, but at the opening of the World War it was converted for wartime...