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Bombing Accuracy: A bomb dropped from 12,000 feet requires 28 seconds to fall, during which time a 21-knot ship travels almost 1,000 feet. Because of weight limitation, airplane sights are inaccurate; and yet an error of one-half degree will place the bomb 100 feet out in a 12,000-foot fall. So a zigzagging ship would be hard...
...June afternoon in Tennessee, a man was talking Smoothly the ribbon of his voice unrolled, with here and there a knot. When, these knots came, his hearers stirred and looked at each other; sometimes they burst out clapping, some times they merely nodded their heads. They were alumni of Fisk University, Negro college of Nashville, Tennessee. He who addressed them was Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, Fisk graduate. He had taken this opportunity (it was Commencement Day, 1924) to bring certain painful things to their attention, he said...
...Fayette McKenzie (white), spoke of him, for one thing, as a bigoted Puritan, for another, as a race partisan. He cited the case of a Negro girl who had been sent home because she could not explain how she happened to possess a $5 bill. Here there was a knot. Dr. Du Bois went on to tell how President McKensie had "jim-crowed" the students of Fisk, had caused a colored Bishop to be insulted. Said he: "I am told that the Jubilee Club gave a concert down town this year. Not only was the colored audience segregated...
...minutes past 8 o'clock on the morning of January 24, and will be at its height at 15 minutes past 9 o'clock. One thing of great interest is to observe the peculiar images cast by the sun during the partial period. A ray of light through a knot hole, for instance, will cast a crescent shaped image on the floor instead of the ordinary round...
Besides several thousand undergraduates who will see the game on these season passes, 2500 pasteboards have been given to the now famous "Knot Role Gang", which has not been able to get a peek at Harvard football since the Middlebury game three weeks ago. Tickets and admissions are also on sale at Cambridge and Boston agencies, and will be sold at the gates of Soldiers Field on Saturday afternoon as well. Mr. C. F. Getchell of the H. A. A. was unable to predict the exact number of these last minute sales, but believes that they will bring the total...