Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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High over the Bay of Bengal sped a lone seaplane, bound for the coast of Burma. Looking down on the watery waste, the pilot beheld three other seaplanes, westbound. The man above was Major A. Stuart MacLaren, British Air Force; the planes below bore Lieutenants Smith, Wade and Nelson, of the U. S. A. It was the meeting of history's first round-the-globe air-racers, but the participants did not stop to exchange greetings...
...Eastman is singularly alone in his contention. Hermann Nelson Morse, Budget Director of the Presbyterian Church, flatly declares that only 10% of Home Missions money is used for the so-called "competitive churches" and that a great part of that 10% is merely refunds to the churches in accordance with a Presbyterian rule that the Home Missions Board must return to any church on demand in any one year as much money as the church contributed in the previous year. Mr. Morse's report is generally accepted as another vindication of the purity of church financing...
...Commencement exercises in Sever Quadrangle, or, in case of rain, in Sanders Theatre; Commencement Part in Latin by Frederick LaM. Santee '24, of Wapwallopen, Pa.; Commencement Parts in English by Nelson H. Smith 4G, of Cambridge, and Weston G. Thomas 4E.S., of Middletown, Ohio; conferring of degrees, in course and honorary...
Pole Vault--1, (tie) Benjamin Owens, Penn; Nelson Sherrill, Penn; and Sylvan Dartmouth; Lauren Upson, California; and Major Sanford, Mass. Tech...
...known for years and even the sea gulls are seeking sheltered nooks out of the wind." In spite of systematic and intensive research of the sea and inlets along the islands, no trace of the missing plane was found and hope was all but abandoned. Lieutenants Smith, Wade and Nelson were ordered to go on, however. They flew 350 miles to Atka Island, prepared to go another 530 miles to Altu Island, when they were scheduled to make their longest flight- 878 miles to Shimushu Island near Japan...