Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...killed; on another occasion had sent out twelve bombers in such bad weather that neither French nor British sent up bombers, and only four of the twelve ever returned. Congressman Reid kept asking, "So you say you were afraid to do that?" until the audience began to hiss. General Patrick, Chief of the Air Service, also gave testimony surprisingly favorable to the Government contentions. He said that anti-aircraft fire was "not entirely effective" but was a useful assistance in repelling enemy air attacks and should be developed. The Government also presented a German military document to show that...
...example of Richthofen's fine sportsmanship, Major Patrick told me that he once had a fight with Richthofen and that his ammunition ran out. Richthofen, being in a faster machine, had Patrick at his mercy, but when he knew that Patrick was unable to fire he flew close to him, waved his hand and turned back to his own lines...
Boston Latin School, of which Patrick T. Campbell '93 is headmaster, this year won the Harvard Interscholastic Scholarship, awarded annually to the school whose candidates make the best record at the admission examinations...
Playwrights are eternally tickle in their geographic affections. A few years ago India was in high favor as the romantic setting par excellence, more recently it has been Spain, and now we find Leon Gordon, who you will remember wrote "White Cargo" and Sir Patrick Hastings conspiring to popularize the dreadful woes of life in Africa. Sir Patrick has dubbed his "comedy" "The River. The river in question happens to be the Mungana, and is, of course, located somewhere in the bejungled interior of that very dark continent, on one is quite sure where. Hence we have a mystery...
...fraternity's representation from Virginia in the Convention of 1788 was large enough to determine the issue for ratification, and John Marshall, leader of the ratification forces in opposition to the eloquent Patrick Henry, was a Phi Beta Kappa man. Two of the original fifty became members of the Continental Congress, one going on from that body into the First Congress of the United States, to which John Heath also was later elected...