Word: cal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were only four days in the 14-day meet of the Soaring Society of America at Elmira, N. Y. last July when there was wind enough for soaring. The meet was rated a success because it marked the establishment of a permanent meteorologi- cal station at Elmira and because a large number of novices earned primary soaring certificates. But the tedious days of inactivity, punctuated by windy speech-making on the part of local boosters, made crack glider pilots wonder why Elmira should be the only soaring site in the East. One who wondered was Richard Chichester du Pont...
...anything but a "demagogue." No man since Buddha has been held with such deep reverence by his people as this frail little man. None, not even excepting Buddha, has gained such a tremendous following in that land. His bitterest political opponents ungrudgingly pay homage to his high ethi- cal and spiritual qualities. "Ghandism a striking corpso"--strange indeed! Those who have even a Faint idea of what Indian public life was like before Ghandi appeared on the scene would rapidly see the shallowness of this epithet. Then the masses accepted their wretched fate in fatalistic apathy. Ghandi has infused into...
...recommend it. However, Mr. Mencken manages to be interesting in his editorial especially when he writes on Calvin Coolidge. The anecdote which tells of a man who was willing to bet that President Harding would be assassinated before the end of his term, since he was sure that "Cal" was "the demndest lucky man in the world," will possibly be new to most readers...
...following members of the Class of 1932 received an A.B. (Out of Course): W. S. Baskervill, Charleston, S.C.; F. S. Bayley, Jr., Seattle, Wash; P. J. Catinella, Belmont, Mass.; H. D. Courtemanche, Hudson, Mass.; J. B. Jackson, New York, N.Y.; W. W. Mein, Jr., San Francisco, Cal; A. I. Mitchell, Jr., Wilmington, Mass.; T. M. Page, Scarsdale, N.Y.; Le Roy Pemberton, Philadelphia, Pa.; C. H. Stockton, Boston, Mass; R. R. Sweeney, Bedford, Mass.; J. H. Tucci, Cambridge, Mass...
...Benedict, Providence, R. I.; B. K. Blossom, Marion, Ind.; J. W. Boldyreff, Battle Creek, Mich.; J. R. Brewster, Andover, Mass.; John Butler, Wakefield, Mass.; G. K. Chalmers, So. Hadley, Mass.; M. L. Chan, Tsingtao, China; Tsung-Yuang Chang, Anhin, China; Isiah Chase, West Roxbury, Mass.; D. L. Cherry, Watsonville, Cal.; F. H. Clark, Hyde Park, Mass.; R. E. Dees, Crystal Springs, Miss.; J. H. Denison, Jr., New York, N.Y.; A. I. Dixon, Reading, Mass.; W. E. Dodd, Jr., Chicago, Ill; M. A. Dolliver, Manset, Me.; J. W. R. Dow, Chicago, Ill.; W. A. Fowlie, Brookline, Mass.; A. R. Fulton, Geneva...