Word: newport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strongest competition is expected to be offered by the Newport and Hochebirge Ski Clubs which are composed mainly of Harvard graduates. Dartmouth will also send several excellent skiers among whom will be wood, the winner of the race last year...
...Newport News...
...time of the War he was a captain attached to the office of Naval operations in Washington. In 1919 he went as Naval attaché to Rome; in 1921 became Commandant of the Mare Island Navy Yard; in 1924 an instructor at the Naval War College at Newport. From that post he was assigned to the Bureau of Aeronautics at Washington, a circumstance that gave a major twist to his career. Soon after he was sent to San Diego, given the aircraft carrier Langley and made commander of the aircraft squadron of the battle fleet. In that post...
...Hampshire, are especially good, with twenty to thirty inches of snow and a powder surface. Claremont, East Jaffery, Hanover, Littleton, North Conway, Intervale, and Peterbore, in New Hampshire, and Greenfield, Massachusetts, also offer good skiing with an average of twelve inches of snow and powder surface, while Canaan, Lincoln, Newport, and Wonalancet. New Hampshire, are only fair. The temperature will probably drop during Friday and Saturday...
...Divine Moment (by Robert Hare Powel; produced by Peggy Fears Blumenthal). A patrician old spinster (Charlotte Granville) lies in her Newport, R. I. house where the lamps are still filled with whale oil, the bathtubs are tin, the portraits 150 years old. She is briskly sentimental with an octogenarian admiral (William Ingersoll) who has thoughtfully dissembled his love for 60 years, tries to persuade her young nephew (Tom Douglas) to give up his Wall Street career and live with her. He promises to show his fiancée when he finds a girl who does not mispronounce Rockefeller. With these...