Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soon, afterward the divers attached air hoses to the ballast tanks of the vessel; then, cocking a snook through the heavy glass ports at those within, the divers rose to the surface. Great eddies began to surge from the ballast tanks as the water was forced out. Ten minutes later the submarine gave a lurch and floated aloft...
...Thomas William Barker, who died some 15 years ago. Miss Barker was in service at Mons and elsewhere in the War area as a Red Cross nurse and ambulance driver. In 1918 she married an Australian officer, Colonel Harold Arkell Smith, who begot her two children. Some five years later she discovered her tendency to transvestism, yielded to it, renounced home and family, courted and married Druggist's Daughter Alfreda Emma Howard, moved to the congenial military centre of Andover, and found apparent happiness...
...judgment assessed by a London court, last week, Reception Clerk Barker submitted quietly to arrest for "contempt of court," and was driven in a patrol wagon to Brixton Prison for males. After scrutinizing Transvestite Barker, the prison surgeon ordered her transferred to Holloway Jail for females. Some 24 hours later the Bankruptcy Court ordered her release, and she left Holloway Jail in women's clothes by a side entrance, thus escaping the peering eyes of a vulgar throng of at least 1,000 male and female Britons, most of whose vocabularies do not even yet contain the noun transvestite...
Rockefeller Foundation. The fever has already killed Dr. Adrian Stokes of Guy's Hospital, London. It must kill no more. Yet within a few months it did kill Dr. Noguchi and, a few days later, Dr. William A. Young, his associate. Last week as another associate, Dr. A. Maurice Wakeman, was sailing to Southampton, the fever killed him-the fourth. He was 31, "perhaps the outstanding graduate of the Yale School of Medicine." He was on his way to teach as assistant professor at Southampton...
...Sloane Coffin, President of Union Theological Seminary, Manhattan, said: "I welcome the proposal . . . that women be given an equal standing with men in the church." The Proposal. In Philadelphia, 140 years ago, met the first general assembly of the Presbyterian church. The women kept their silence. Nearly 100 years later the first woman's executive committee of Home Missions was appointed. Since then women have become increasingly vocal in the church, but in the direction of the church they have had no voice. When the various boards of the church were reorganized in 1922 several women were given important...