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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Imperial Airways was not founded until several years after the War-1924, I believe. It was an amalgamation of English lines, including Scott-Paine's own Supermarine Airways. running from Southampton to the Channel Islands and Havre. During the War Scott-Paine built Supermarine airplanes and made lots of money...
...Union was built in 1901 with funds donated by Major Henry Lee Higginson of Boston, who also gave Soldiers Field to the University and founded the Boston Symphony. It was Major Higginson's purpose to present to the University a building where "the freest and fullest intercourse between the students" would be promoted. The Freshman Union Committee of the Class of 1935 had this ideal in mind when it took as its objective "the development of the social, educational and cultural potentialities of the Union." While this ambitious program fell short of complete realization, the Union and its friendly atmosphere...
...Author's local color is her native tint. Her maternal great-grandfather went to southern Georgia as a ''New Light'' preacher, her grandfather built with his own hands the isolated little country church where all her family are buried. Georgia-born (1903) and bred, Authoress Miller got her schooling at Waycross High School, where she took more than an academic interest in English and in her English teacher (W. D. Miller), whom she married two months after graduation. Now she lives in Baxley, Ga., where her husband teaches school. She finds time to write while...
...without question, for fouling the windward mark on the 10½-mi. course. The title went to Waterhouse, who won the last race by finishing three seconds behind Movie Star II. A handsome, mustachioed San Francisco captain, Waterhouse had kept well up among the leaders in the earlier races, built up a point total of 67 for the series by careful racing of which the cardinal rule was to let his opponents make the blunders. Like his crew, Woodbridge Metcalfe, he works in the State Foresters office at San Francisco...
...Stewart. When Stewart died in the late 1870's, grave-looters stole his body from the St. George's Church in Stuyvesant Square, held it for ransom. To this day no one knows whether it was successfully ransomed. In the Garden City, L. I. Cathedral, which Stewart built , is a tomb bearing his name. But the inscription reads: '"He is not here, he is risen...