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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another part of his speech, the Air Secretary referred to "the greatest air power, our old friend, France; and no sane Englishman or Frenchman now dreams of strained relations between the two countries." In another passage, he continued...
This new doctrine did not appeal to women, who preferred the picturesque material brightness of Hinduism, but it developed the fighting man. Hardy, victory-or-die, well-disciplined sort of fellow, the Sikh has become without peer the greatest soldier in Asia. Him the British found hardest to conquer. Having conquered him, they found him their great military asset overseas. In Shanghai and other treaty ports of China, the only constabulary are the long-haired, short-drawered Sikhs.* And, in India, it is the Sikhs who keep the peace...
...study in late colonial. Architects Holabird and Roche exhibited their model for a stadium at Grant Park, Chicago, the Propylseum of Athens transplanted, magnified. Yet, for all the presence of these able builders, the exhibition seemed to be a memorial to one now dead, one who was perhaps the greatest of U. S. architects -Bertram G. Goodhue. He was represented by his design of St. Thomas's Church, Manhattan. "Not surpassed by the best work of the Middle Ages," critics have said of this building. "The great reredos at Winchester does not sing in greater ecstasy than the marble...
...Thompson Institute of Botanical Research at Yonkers, N. Y., founded with a $3,000,000 endowment by Colonel William Boyce Thompson (TIME, Oct. 6) has been conducting a series of experiments on the longevity of seeds. The greatest record so far established has been with seeds of the lotus (Nelumbo nucifera). These seeds were taken from the dried-up bed of a lake in Manchuria. The lake-bed had been covered with loess, seolian deposits of dust from the Gobi Desert. The depth and stratification of the deposit enabled a rough calculation of the age of the seeds...
Georgetown places its hopes on a small squad of 21 men, but this confidence appears justifiable when one scans their list of entries. At the head of the list comes Emerson Norton, who finished second to Osborne in the Olympic decathlon last August. Norton is almost undoubtedly the greatest all round athlete in college ranks today...