Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Late last night it was announced from the ticket office that 4700 applications had been received for the 13,972 tickets to the West Point game. Of these applications 2,220 were from undergraduates who are allotted 6379 tickets...
...first meeting of the annual fall competition of the Harvard Flying Club was hold last night in Sever 6 with 40 candidates reporting. It is not, however, too late for further applications it was announced by J. A. Mars '29, who conducted the meeting. New candidates should report to Mars at Stoughton...
...lack of sleep is one of the growing evils of the American undergraduate, met with but a cold reception. Yet there is evidence in plenty to support his statement. Anyone who has ever had a nine o'clock class is familiar with the sleeping six and the half dozen late. The well lighted windows of the Business School, and even of the Freshman Halls, tell to any late traveller by the Charles a story sufficiently convincing. Perhaps Dr. Ferrand did not refer to this sort of undergraduate, but rather to those who might be ranked in the Army...
...Eckener plans to pilot the Count Zeppelin to the U. S. and establish a regular trans-Atlantic passenger service, as the culmination of his career. Long before the World War, he worked with the late Count Zeppelin in converting the clumsy blimp into the streamlined airship. The change was essentially the perfection of a light and rigid duraluminum framework within the gas bag (envelope). The result was a superb instrument of war-with long cruising radius and many-bomb capacity. Terms of peace made it necessary for Dr. Eckener to bring Zeppelin ZR3 to the U. S., where...
Died. George Lambton, 73, 3d Earl of Durham, famed English turfman, landlord & coal tycoon; after a long illness; in London. He owned race horses for 50 years, never placed a bet, won only one English classic. The late Lord Randolph Churchill once described him as "prominent among the gilded youth who throng the corridor of the Gaiety Theatre, but who have studied politics about as much as Barnum's white elephant and upon whose ingenious mind even the idea of rendering service to the state has not yet commenced to dawn...