Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Announcement was made last night by the judges of the CRIMSON school newspaper competition that the cup for this year had been awarded to the Choate News. The Hill News and the Hotchkiss Record, at the same time, received honorable mention. This cup, donated by the senior editors of the CRIMSON, is the first of three similar prizes, also donated by the graduating editors, that will be presented for the next two years to those school papers, whose general make-up, news and editorials are most capably handled...
...hours and 21 minutes a creature soared silently, with motionless wings, near Koenigsberg, Germany, one day last week. A thunder shower forced it to earth. It was the glider Goethen, holder of the previous world's record of 5 hr. 40 min. for motorless heavier-than-air craft with pilot and passenger.* It bore Ferdinand Schulz and a companion. Pilot Schulz's skill lies in utilizing air currents after leaving a lofty takeoff, as do eagles and other birds capable of staying aloft for hours with never a wing beat. He declares he is confident...
...world's record for a glide by pilot alone: 9 hr. 4 min. by Lieutenant Thoret (TIME, Sept...
...government volcano observatory at Hilo, Hawaii (TIME, May 3). It was an earthquake annunciator, a simplified seismograph for installation in the cellars of private dwellings, with an indicator to be read upstairs. It would, he said-and his high standing as a scientist removed all doubt from the assertion-record earth shocks from the slightest tremble to rocking imperceptible to the unaided senses. Scientists hailed it as one of the notable geologic advances of the decade...
...many plays, preventing the visitors from scoring. For Myopia, Q. A. S. McKean and H. P. McKean did most of the scoring, with four goals to the credit of each. D. P. Rogers scored three. Alexander Shaw '28, lead the scoring for the University, with four goals as his record. Pinkerton, University captain, collected two goals, and Stranahan, Crimson back, completed the Harvard scoring with one tally, the first Crimson goal of the game...