Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Gammer Gurton's Needle" will be but one of the many interesting plays to be given by the Portmanteau Theatre company during the fall and winter season, when the theatre--a movable, portable playhouse--will be shown in the majority of the principal cities from coast to coast. In addition to a number of plays by Mr. Walker himself, there will be shown several by Lord Dusany, whose "Night at an Inn" is now the biggest one-act sensation that the New York stage has had for many years. Mr. Walker has secured the exclusive American rights to Dusany...
...Harvard, Maine, M. I. T., had Yale. The Middle Atlantic States have as entrants Columbia, Cornell, Georgetown, Haverford, Johns Hopkins, Lafayette, New York University, Pennsylvania, Penn. State, Princeton, Rutgers, Swarthmore, and Syracuse. Michigan is the sole entrant from the middle west, while California and Stanford come from the Pacific Coast...
...maritime pursuits. The course of training will be given on board reserve battleships of the fleet. These ships in reserve have reduced Navy complements on board and this will enable us to take about 500 civilians on each ship. The ships will start from various points along the Atlantic coast--Boston, Newport, New York, Philadelphia, Norfolk, and Charleston. Practically any person in good physical health and between the ages of 19 and 45 can enroll, and the cost of the cruise to each man will be about $30, which will cover the cost of his board and provide him with...
...general way with what their duties will be, after which the ships will leave their respective naval districts and cruise for a period of about three weeks, taking part as a squadron unit in the big war game which is to be held off the coast by the Atlantic Fleet. The third week will be spent cruising along the coast, and the fourth week each ship returns to the port from which she started and will take part in conjunction with motor boats, coast artillery, etc., in problems of local defence...
...dentists. This group will continue the work of the second unit, which was sent to Europe last November at the request of Sir William Osler, of Oxford, England, and which will complete a six months' tour of duty at a British Base Hospital near Boulogne on the French coast on June 9. On that date the new unit will arrive and take charge. It is expected that the hospital will have a capacity of 1400 beds...