Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took three different plunges-first to a depth of 50 feet, then a shifting of ballast, a plunge to 110 feet, another ballast-adjustment, and then a final plunge to 220 feet, at which level the underwater boat traveled successfully some seven miles. This test run constituted a record for official submarine navigation and was accounted as a feather in the V-2's periscope...
...sociological. Up in Michigan, the 21 young spinsters of Kappa Kappa Gamma of Adrian College reported to the Dean that ten of their men friends had done a little drinking at their sorority dance. Proclaimed the spinsters: "We, the members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority, hereby go on record as being opposed to the use of liquor in any form, and we furthermore state that we believe the ten boys who attended our dancing party were guilty of gigantic disrespect, both to ourselves and to our chaperon." The ten giants of disrespect were suspended from college for two weeks...
...Snowden: "The financial record of France, during the last seven years especially, is one of the most discreditable in the history of national finance...
...turned to what he considered another pole of culture, to sophisticated college students, to the unkempt, dizzy bohemians of Greenwich Village. He even had himself admitted to the stuffy interiors of theatres. Here among the scorned of the show world, in dismal surroundings, he found the best record of all. True, none knew all Ten Commandments. Yet one knew nine, two knew eight. Their average was 7.1 Commandments each...
...sounds dubious; but it was not so long ago that people's hair stood on end at the thought of going "a mile a minute." The latest speed record (Lieutenant A. J. William, U. S. Navy, in a Curtiss hydroplane last fall) is 266 m. p. h., or over "four miles a minute." This speed would not have to be quite doubled to permit an 18-hour circummundane flight on the 60th parallel, which is only 8,312 miles around...