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Motorwoman Alexandra had permitted a personable young man to ride the quarterdeck of No. 56 with her. With throttle open, brakes off, they whizzed downhill from Dzerjinski Place to Theatre Place while traffic scattered and passengers clung screaming to their seats. At the bottom of the hill the car jumped the tracks so violently that its body was torn from the trucks. One woman was killed, six persons gravely injured. Alexandra Semeena, built of stern stuff, was unscathed. Inspectors discovered that the brakes were in perfect condition, had not even been applied...
...first week of the law to 90,337 in the fourth week, an average drop of 50% per week which indicated that total Bonus loans would not exceed $800,000,000. Administrator Hines, no friend of the bonus law. refused to be encouraged by the decrease in applications, clung stubbornly to his $1,000,000,000 estimate for the bonus loan total. However, not until Bonus loans exceed the $934,000,000 reserve fund, will this outlay become a part of the deficit...
...growing into Radcliffe, came into existence, Harvard was on a strictly one-horse basis, with no necessity of choosing between the two methods of "hitching up." From the entrance of girls upon the educational scene it adopted the tandem plan, and, except for the Graduate School of Education, has clung to it with a masculine tenacity. Now it is announced that the women students in the Summer School of this year of grace are to be housed in the Yard dormitories. Why not? They have been accommodated hitherto in the Freshman Halls along the Charles, and, since the freshmen...
...controls. They intended only a ground test, but as the automobile gained momentum the glider suddenly attained flying speed, rose abruptly, broke loose from its towing cable and executed a half loop. Inventor Davis fell out; his glider fell on top of him, killed him. Mechanic Nelson clung to the machine, escaped serious injury...
...Widow Beryl Hart, 27, flying the Bellanca seaplane Tradewind, reached Bermuda fortnight ago in their attempted "payload" flight from New York to Paris. They took off again for the Azores, flew into a high wind over heavy seas, were not again seen or heard from. A few optimists clung to the ephemeral hope that the flyers were alive on one of the outlying Azores. But cold reason labelled the Tradewind the seventeenth transatlantic plane to be lost since 1927; the pilots the 30th and 31st; Mrs. Hart the fourth woman...