Word: crossings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tongue, his only recent public utterance was badgered out of him by reporters who wanted to know what the N. G. L. meant, exactly, by announcing that the Bremen and Europa would be "five-day boats."* Goaded, Herr Stimming barked: "I mean that the Bremen and the Europa will cross from America to England within five times 24 hours ! They will reach Germany within six times 24 hours after they leave New York." Only the Bremen is now left to make such a record six-day crossing to Germany in 1929-all other ships on that run now take nine...
Approximately 180 candidates for the University track team, with over 100 Freshmen, reported to Coach E. L. Farrell at the initial meeting of the season yesterday afternoon at the Locker Building. Regular outdoor practice started immediately after the meeting, with the distance men jogging down the cross country course to the Water town bridge, and the dash men working out with Coaches Farrell, Mikkola, and Haggerty, on the Freshman track...
Near to apoplexy, last week, was Dr. Hugo Eckener. His Graf Zeppelin was about to sail from Friedrichshafen on a Mediterranean cruise with 28 passengers at $720 per head, when he learned that French officialdom had forbidden him to cross any part of France except at night, and except by way of the mountainous Swiss border. England had recently blocked his passing over Egypt. Cried the heckled aviator: "It is a heartbreaking struggle to achieve anything...
Entered a policeman escorting Miss Bertha St. Clair Mason, 48, charged by Mr. Snowden with attempting to blackmail him. "I will break you politically and socially," threatened one of Spinster Mason's letters, "because you betrayed me 20 years ago." Under cross-examination she admitted writing the letters, but said they were meant for another Mr. Snowden. "It's just one of those cases of mistaken identity. I'm awfully sorry...
...humane custom to break the legs of the crucified to speed Death. But Christ died on the cross. Nevertheless, nervously, impulsively, a Roman soldier pierced the body with his spear. Joseph the Arimathaean asked for the body and buried it in a tomb he had intended for himself, where no man had ever lain...