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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midnight last week the battle was on when Washington flashed a "state of war" warning to the Blue fleet. With lights out and radio silent it moved across the Gulf of Panama in search of the enemy. The Blue's eagle-eyed destroyers were in the lead, the Los Angeles overhead and flagship Arkansas in the rear. Fanwise the Blue spread itself out protectively up and down the coast. At sunrise 36 hours later, scouting planes made their first con tact with the Black fleet moving shoreward in two sections. The old Arkansas, with the heat 133° in her engine...
...price of $500 was put on his head. Fourteen days and nights Ismael Husseyin wandered in the mountains, his bare feet torn on the rocks. Starving, last week he entered a village to search for food. Five hundred dollars is a lot of money to a Turkish village. Townsmen turned him over to the authorities. Next day Ismael Husseyin swung from the gallows he had once cheated, his blackened tongue impudently thrust at his captors. On his breast swung a placard: THUS ARE PUNISHED TRAITORS TO THE RE PUBLICAN REGIME OF KEMAL PASHA...
...search for this "yardstick of space beyond the stars," to an unrelaxing effort to calibrate it ever more accurately, Dr. Michelson has devoted 52 years. In its pursuit he has literally turned the light on light, made it disclose new truths: about stars so huge that the earth and its whole orbit could be dropped in them and lost; about the ether; about the mysterious place in the universe toward which the sun, all the planets are hurrying at terrific speed...
...three years ago when she moved to St.Paul where her brother, Benjamin Wright Scandrett, famed railroad lawyer, is vice president of Northern Pacific. Another brother, Henry Alexander Scandrett, is president of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Co.For two years Mrs. Burt and her brothers have been quietly, diligently searching for Horace, onetime student in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Their search availed them nothing. Finally they resorted to the hope that Horace, who had been a thoroughgoing Post reader, would chance to stumble upon himself in the magazine's back pages...
...work will be the fourteenth produced by the Metropolitan in its search for a lasting U. S. opera. Unlike most operas, this one was instigated by the librettist. Richard Leroy Stokes felt the creative urge when he was still writing sharp musical criticisms for the New York Evening World. He wrote a libretto in a combination of rhymed and unrhymed verse, dedicated it to his exotic-looking wife, then asked Director Howard Hanson of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester to write the music, please. Composer Hanson is now more than half done...