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Last week the Panama Canal was blown up in the imaginations of U. S. Army and Navy men. With the U. S. battle fleet at far-away Hawaii, an enemy fleet was thought to be snoring up the Atlantic Coast to attack Hampton Roads. The U. S. Joint Army and Navy Board, having perfected plans for just such an emergency, proceeded with a rapid, potent mobilization of coast defense units at the mouth of Chesapeake...
After having spent thirty-five days in New Hampton reformatory, where he was placed for writing an obscene poem published in the Daily Worker, David Gordon, a student at the University of Wisconsin, has been released. His comparison of the American business world with a house of ill-fame was certainly in poor taste; but few who know the circumstances would consider the young poet deserving of so harsh a punishment. He was born in Russia, and has been raised in sections of New York City where the tenets of communism sway the public mind and make the more spirited...
...Hampton Court, England," Professor Pray, Robinson Hall...
...Hampton Court and other English Examples," Professor Pray, Robinson Hall...
...when Queen Victoria was swishing around her palace in long dresses. Hardy was then a small boy who took special pleasure in walking through Wessex fields, dawdling to talk with old men as they drove their cattle along the roads. The moors stretched out around the village of Upper Hampton where he lived; at night the wind blew a mist across them, muffling soft sounds, making a dog's voice, searching along some far hedgerow, an obscure dangerous signal, a portent of sorrow. The quiet tides of the country, the slow changes of the land and its people, were...