Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take Colonel Lindbergh to New York the "one failure in the Spirit of St. Louis's performance," Mr. Mitchell added: "and it was caused by the organization in this country which has always impeded and held up aviation-the Navy." Navy officials refused to discuss the Mitchell attack, except for Assistant Secretary Robinson's remark, quoted above. Colonel Lindbergh, however, said: "It [the defect found in the Spirit of St. have been caused by carelessness on anyone's part. ... I wish particularly to compliment the naval air station at Anacostia on the high character of its personnel...
...Visiting hours were theoretically from 7 to 8, but not for the Carrolls.) The visitors left usually about midnight, and then Room 19 would be,, quiet until, in the morning, three sharp buzzes told the nurse that the patient was awake. But he took little interest in anything except the Manhattan newspapers, which usually came out from his room with theatrical and social items clipped from them...
...Yale glee clubs, not to take the place of the informal meeting before the football game in the fall. . . . Having so much in common both in tradition and in modern tendency", commented the News. "It is unfortunate that the Yale and Harvard clubs do not come into contact except in the informal joint concert the evening of the Yale-Harvard football game. . . . Since this does not provide an opportunity for a presentation of the best work of the clubs, would it not seem advisable to hold is joint cncert in the winter or spring, in which both clubs might take...
...subscribers to the CRIMSON except those who live in dormitories in the Yard, are asked to call at the Crimson office from now until the end of the year to secure their copies...
...fame. The President off for his summer vacation in the Black Hills was given a column on the first page of the second section of so sedate and well-balanced a paper as the New York Times, while Colonel Lindberg in his journey up Broadway received all the space, except the unprinted margins, in the first five pages of the same issue...