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...Thomson Dallas of New Hampshire, Headmaster Frederick Herbert Sill of Kent School, Headmaster George Gardner Monks of Lenox School, Rev. Arthur Lee Kinsolving of Boston.* Rev. C. Rankin Barnes of the Social Service Department of the Protestant Episcopal Church. There were young Episcopalians: Harold Bend Sedgwick. Harvard 1930; Martin Firth, Hobart 1930, who spoke on "Why I Am Going to the Mission Field"; Nathaniel ("Nat") Noble. Yale 1928, who told "Why I Am Going into the Ministry." With them met students from 20 colleges. They walked, skated, played squash, talked. At midnight, while many another student was roistering 1932 away...
...Still longer bridges exist, but they are a series of bridges, swung or arched between piers arranged like stepping stones across a river. Longest bridges of this type are the Firth of Forth Bridge in Scotland, the Samara Bridge over the Volga River...
...fleet was anchored in Cromarty Firth, a curving 20-mi. arm of the sea bound in by grey Scotch mountains, ready to sail for autumn battle practice in the North Sea. Early in the week the 12,000 sailors of the fleet learned full details of the pay cuts imposed by the Admiralty Board in accordance with the economy plans of the National Government (TIME, Sept. 21). Because the Cabinet had given no instructions how the pay cuts were made but merely told the Admiralty the total amounts to be saved, the fleet heard last week that midshipmen and junior...
...Intensive Persuasion." Next day the captains of all the warships in Cromarty Firth read the Admiralty's new orders to their crews. Ships were ordered to put out to sea and return to their home ports. British papers glossed over the next few hours: they were the tensest in the entire affair. Ringleaders refused to believe that once at sea they would not be sent to distant stations in punishment. It took two hours to get the anchors up. Grim laced sub-lieutenants slipped into their lockers for side arms. Correspondents passed over what happened below decks before the fleet...
...Andrew William Mellon, whose daughter bears the name of Ailsa, with the 83-year-old owner of St. Kilda, but found much to connect Lord Ailsa with the U. S. The Marquess of Ailsa, whose title comes from Ailsa Craig, a precipitous rock at the mouth of the Firth of Clyde, is a direct descendant of a Captain Archibald Kennedy, R. N., who inherited an estate near Hoboken, N. J. in 1763, married into New York's Schuyler and Van Rensselaer families, was said to own "more houses in New York than any other man." From Ailsa Craig come...