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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Practicabilities. The-fastest liner in the world is the 30,704-ton Mauretania with a superlative speed of but 27 knots. Only frail, slender destroyers attain the proposed velocity of Signer Mussolini's liners, already christened by rumor the Duce and the Rex. Allegedly an Italian inventor has conceived the idea of supplementing the stern propellers with additional propulsive apparatus to be placed along the sides of the new ships. Reputedly Signor Mussolini is ready to sacrifice all cargo space to engines, subsidize the ships, and use them only for express passenger and mail service. At such a cost...
Gross is one of the fastest men in college hockey, while Hamlen is as good a team-worker as has graced a Harvard combination in some years. In Johnny Chase, however, is the burden of the Crimson attack concentrated. Chase is easily the most brilliant performer on this year's team, and according to the information which has trickled out of the H. A. A. regarding the afternoon practices at the Arena. Chase is a much improved player over last winter. And last year, he was the regular center on the strong Harvard line...
Comes winter and with it boardwalks and debutantes, theses and racoons--and Eleanora Sears awalking. From Boston to Providence, from the Biltmore to Beacon Street and all the time with swinging arms and vigorous stride. Like hour exams Miss Sears' pedestrian expeditions have become traditional, if superfluous. She walks fastest who walks alone degenerates not only into a trite axiom but even into a prevarication when Miss Sears takes to the road; a tennis star and four--count 'em four--pacers accompany her, and behind trail two "massive automobiles". This is walking de luxe. But if Trudie merits a jazz...
...plane. Spectators were reported to be so intent as to pay no attention to ad interim announcements of big football games. Yet an airplane race is better to hear than to watch. Some say that they would rather see two fleas racing across a piece of paper than the fastest planes in the world...
...West Virginia, Colorado (the most expensive: $25,000,000) and Maryland are the three largest ships in the Navy (each 32,600 tons). Behind these in single file would come the 15 other battleships, stretching back six miles to the Pedro Miguel locks where the Florida (oldest and fastest of them all) would be chafing to get put. Then about one mile of light cruisers; then the submarines- almost a hundred of them-with their vanguard creeping midget-like through the yawning Gaillard Cut;* then another five miles of 106 pert destroyers impatient for the open sea; finally the submarine...