Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...means of description and narration which has also been aptly capitalized by the present daily press. There are pictures, more technically perhaps, cuts in the modern class compendiums, and the graduate who journeys to Singapore can refresh himself of an evening with views of the Yard, of the crew captain, and even of himself before his hair fell. Externals again perhaps but they are elements of importance in the memories which give color to a college education...
Hosing. A Keystone Army bomber over Manhattan and a Ryan monoplane over Fort Worth, Texas, each last week received their gasoline by hose. This was the method which enabled Captain Ira Eaker and his crew of four to keep the Army Fokker Question Mark above Southern California 150 hrs., 40 min., 16 sec., last January (TIME, Jan. 14), longer than any human had ever stayed...
Leading them through the trying days had been Joseph N. Weber, their president, captain, champion, advisor. But even "Joe" Weber had been unable to offer any sure-fire suggestion for a way to combat the "menace" of machine-made music in the cinema houses of the land. Even "Joe" Weber seemed to see nothing but musical doom, and the one resolution which was issued for publication after the secret meetings contained nothing more cheerful than pride, nothing more tangible than a prediction...
Barry Matthew Hartnett '30, of Malone New York, was reelected captain of the University lacrosse team yesterday afternoon at an assembly of all those who have won their insignia in this sport...
Arthur Ingraham, Jr. '30, of Oakland, Rhode Island, has been elected captain of the Harvard tennis team for the ensuing year, succeeding B. H. Whitbeck '29, it was announced last night. The election, as is customary, is subject to the approval of the athletic committee...