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...Church of Boston into the grave, consoled on his death bed by Dr. Frothingham's assurance that "at least he had not outlived his teeth." Ralph and his four brothers did their poor mother's chores, pastured the cows on Boston Common. But it was during summer visits in Concord, at Step-Grandfather Ripley's manse, that New England Nature smiled on him. By the responsive leaping of his heart, he felt that his own human nature was designed for glorious affairs...
...survived into this epoch of the steam engine, the airplane, the incandescent lamp, the wireless telephone and the battleship? . . . We should strive to identify the qualities in him that made our revolution a success and our Nation great. Those were the qualities that marked Washington out for immortality . . . Lexington . . . Concord . . . Bunker Hill . . . Valley Forge . . . Yorktown...
...each signed by 25 members of the class, are as follows: For president, William Charles McCarty, of Arlington; Franklin Plummer Whitbeck, of Bronxville, New York. For vice-president, Edwin Ide Brainard, of Arlington; Richard Woolen Emory, of Baltimore, Maryland; Thomas Ferguson Locke, of Boston; Arthur Stanwood Pier, Jr., of Concord, New Hampshire; David Daniel Scan-nel, Jr., of Jamaica Plain. For Secretary-treasurer, Donald Armstrong, of West Roxbury; Delavan Carlos Clos, of New York, New York: Lee Perot Howard, of Larchmont, New York...
...President Ebenezer Francis Bowditch, of Concord Robert Somers Brookings II, of Alexandria, Virginia Charles King Howard, of Larchmont, New York Randolph Appleton Kidder, of Andover William Charles McCarty, of Arlington Franklin Plummer Whitbeck, of Brouxville, New York William Keblinger Wyant of Atlanta, Georgia...
...Battle Force (Pennsylvania, California, New York, Oklahoma, Nevada, Tennessee, Colorado, Maryland, West Vir-ginia). Their radios were ominously silent and they did not come alone. Trailing in their wake was the naval sinew which complements the nation's mightiest sea arm. Jauntily steamed four light cruisers (Omaha, Cincinnati, Concord, Detroit). Rolling porpoise-wise came 24 destroyers. Like sluggish metal fish, six submarines crawled along with decks awash. Plowing forward in the procession were the Lexington and the Saratoga with aircraft on their flat backs. Mine sweepers, oilers, repair, supply and hospital ships, seagoing camp-followers, all bunched together...