Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West look on p. 7. Henceforth Boy Scouts will be mentioned in a special section of NATIONAL AFFAIRS called BOY SCOUTS...
...valley, stood Monticello, old home of Thomas Jefferson. The electricians were adjusting a search light to play on Monticello, a searchlight so huge that were Mon ticello a mile nearer, the dazzling light would artificially "sunburn" a person standing on the old colonial porch at midwinter midnight. The special function for which the light was being got ready was a spectacle in honor of the Institute of Public Affairs which opened last week at the University of Virginia (see p. 24). Thereafter the searchlight, hugest in the world, would be at the service of Virginia physicists and of night flyers...
...Navy and Democratic candidate for vice president in 1920, who contracted infantile paralysis in the epidemic of 1922, but regained the use of his legs through warm mineral water treatments, revealed the formation of a Georgia Warm Springs Foundation which, with a fund of $75,000, has organized a special hospital at Warm Springs...
Last week champion two-year-old Dice, his long narrow legs playing up and down like fire, stepped out of a Saratoga stable where he was being groomed for the morrow's Saratoga Special. Gaily he loped a practice mile, sniffed the cool air that smelled a little of horses and saddles, pranced off the track. A stable man leading him rubbed the horse's nose, then looked down at his hand quickly. It was covered with blood. Dice, suddenly tired, stood stiffly while bright red drops made a pattern on the damp turf. Four hours later, blood...
Inventor Raymond Machlett of Long Island City, N. Y., lately developed a light of such special incandescence that its long wave light rays can be seen through 20 miles of fog (TIME, July...