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Wilkins' plan is to equip the submarine with an ice drill, capable of piercing 50 ft. of ice from beneath, to enable him to stop the craft under the polar ice pack, take on fresh air, recharge batteries, make observations. A trolley riding on the under side of the ice would indicate the position of the boat. A pressure lock would enable men in diving suits to leave and re-enter the submerged ship...
...Cadet Cagle, aged 23, had married Marion Munford Haile. He returned to West Point to sign certificates that he had not violated the Academy's strict rule against cadets marrying. Mrs. Cagle taught school in Louisiana as Miss Haile, kept out of sight, never saw her husband drill or play football...
After four months' battle drill in the Caribbean, the bulk of the U. S. fleet- 67 men-o'-war-last week assembled at the entrance to New York harbor. At dawn a great line of sea power, ten miles long, began to thread its way up the bay into the Hudson River. The procession was led by the California, the Navy's No. 1 capital ship carrying Admiral Louis McCoy Nulton, commander-in-chief of the Battle Fleet, followed by the West Virginia, Maryland, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico. Next came the cruisers: Detroit, Marblehead, Raleigh, Richmond...
...indeed excellent to be able to boast the best university chemistry laboratory, the most formidable Drill Hall, and even the finest set of dormitories (if indeed such a boast is Cornell's), but what is happening to the other side of the picture...
Coach Mitchell's charges took a workout in the cage instead, running through a brief batting and fielding drill. Their next game comes tomorrow when the Colgate team comes here for an encounter on Soldiers Field...