Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...August 1914, as German troops were slogging through Belgium, the eyes of the sport world focused for a moment on a tennis court at Forest Hills, N. Y. There, in what was probably the most dramatic tennis match ever played, Australasian Tennists Norman Brookes and Anthony Wilding, on the eve of joining their British regiments, captured the Davis Cup from U. S. Tennists R. Norris Williams, Maurice McLoughlin and Tom Bundy...
...garage of Westinghouse's Dr. Frank Conrad. The place had so much reverberation that Dr. Conrad pitched a tent inside, over the works-a sort of first radio soundproofing. It was 8XS that transmitted the first international broadcast, to Europe via England, on New Year's Eve in 1923. Henceforth WSXK's audiences will have to identify it as WPIT (for Pittsburgh). Other important changes, most of them effective last week and last fortnight: Crosley Radio Corp., Cincinnati, W8XAL to WLWO; General Electric Co., Schenectady, W2XAD, W2XAF to WGEA, WGEO; G. E.'s Treasure Island...
Remember the Warwick? On St. George's Eve, 1918, she put out to sea for Zeebrugge, leading 74 scarecrow vessels- a nearly obsolete cruiser, some ferryboats, three old light cruisers loaded with concrete, two ancient submarines packed with explosives, and a swarm of tiny motor launches and smoke-boats. Their job was to block the Bruges Canal, from which U-boats had been darting on their deadly errands. As they set out, Vice Admiral Roger Keyes signaled the others: "St. George for England," and one answered: "May we give the dragon's tail a damned good twist...
...young aunt without losing his belief that he was an honorable Virginia gentleman. Meanwhile, he was a hero-whipping his troops into superb order, disciplining them ruthlessly, winning their admiration, leading them into carnage at Port Hudson and damning the cowardly political generals who got sick on the eve of battles. But when Lillie discovered his deception, the only good impulse in his "emphatic and volcanic nature" disappeared. Plodding Captain Colburne saved the family in a raid, avoided in embarrassment the wiles of Lillie's aunt, finally won Lillie-in about the sense that the North won the South...
Smartest of the Nolan promotions are four parking lots, away from the business district, where Detroiters can park their cars for 15?, go downtown and back for another 15?, save parking troubles downtown. Another good one is a New Year's Eve service for drunks: D.S.R. busses deliver tipsy roisterers to their front doors...