Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor Walker went to Atlanta and there met many other politicians-U. S. Senators and Representatives, the Governors of Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina. A monster parade blared along Peachtree Street. Then there were special trains to take everyone out to the foot of Stone Mountain, 18 miles from town. It was the 63rd anniversary of General Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and part of the monster memorial sculptures to the Confederate Armies, carved first by Gutzon Borglum, later by Augustus Lukeman, were ready for unveiling...
Gabrilowitch brought his musicians to Manhattan in two special trains of twelve cars each, with two baggage cars and four diners. He wrote to the papers, asking that audiences attend his performances in a special mood of gravity and that they refrain from wearing bright colored clothes, lest there should be discord in the earnest surroundings of Holy Week, and lest the spell of a "musical masterpiece" be injured. Further, Mr. Gabrilowitch said this: "In all the years of my musical experience I have never found as much joy and inspiration in any artistic task as in the study...
...height and breadth. Colored cinemas are already being shown regularly. But they are painful to watch; the colors, notably the reds, do not blend properly. Pictures giving the illusion of three dimensions have also been cast and screened. To behold them, spectators have been obliged to use special and cumbersome opera-glasses. Nonetheless, these are stages on the way to perfect photography, and it may well be that upon his next trip George Eastman, to whom scientists owe as much thanks as he to them, will carry equipment that will record his exploits in three-dimensional and four-color exactitude...
...tube, sent Robert Koch* into Egypt from which he emerged with the Vibrio cholerae, cause of all the trouble. Work on the troublesome organism has not ceased since that time. During the last epidemic the British Government appointed Dr. Felix d'Herelle, world renowned bacteriologist, head of a special mission to India to study cholera. Last month he returned to Paris victorious. The bacteriophage** which is liberated by Vibrio cholerae, discovered by d'Herelle in 1917, had eradicated the disease and immunized the population of large areas...
Each class team will play the other two teams three times for the University title, the winner meeting Yale class team champion in Cambridge on May 26. Those who play against Yale will be awarded their class numerals and in case of victory will receive special medals...