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What interested Assistant Secretary Ingalls in this mimic sea battle, what made his swivel chair doubly uncomfortable in the Navy Department, was the fact that for the first time Naval strategists had so arranged their war problem that the full defensive power of aircraft would be truly tested. One side was made top-heavy with sea armament; the other's strength was in the air. At stake was everything "Dave" Ingalls had worked and talked and planned for during his two years in office...
...Last week in Paris Paul Roger of the Pathe group was planning the synchronization of Valentino's Blood and Sand, as a test for making dead stars talk, with a Valentino mimic capable of gauging and timing the dialog accurately...
...Hoover reviews Greatest Naval Pageant in History of Nation" headlines the Metropolitan Press. For more than three hours, according to the news dispatch which adds color to the banner across the front page, the massed naval strength of the United States "played games of mimic warfare" with Commander-in-Chief Herbert Hoover as an interested spectator...
...fervent desire that the London Naval Conference would bring about "a definite slash in armaments," not merely a limitation treaty. The Washington Wit scores not so much in this amusing reversal of form as in the revelation that both of these Spectacles for the People were after all, only "mimic Games"; one a peace-puzzle of comic sections and the other a panorama of toy ships for a little boy-god named Mars...
...when it is popular to decry the increasing tendency of American colleges to mimic English universities in their academic environment, it is interesting to see the Yale Daily News outline a plan for undergraduate study which almost duplicates that which has obtained for so long a time at Oxford...