Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thirty-eight men comprising four complete units will make the trip. A special car has been chartered, and will leave Boston with the Federal Express on Saturday, December 26 at 9 o'clock...
Guilty Greece. The special Commission sent to fix responsibility for the Greco-Bulgar unpleasantness (TIME, Nov. 2, 9) issued a printed report last week laying the entire blame for the invasion of Bulgarian territory by Greek troops upon Greece. The report recommended to the Council of the League of Nations that Greece pay an indemnity of 20,000,000 leva ($146,000) to cover the material losses suffered by the Bulgarians, and 10,000,000 leva as restitution due the Bulgarian Government for "loss of lives, loss of working days, moral suffering by the population and the costs incurred...
Further, the report urged that neutral officers be placed in charge of the forces guarding frontiers in the Balkans, and that the machinery for a "Conciliation Commission" to function in case of hostile incidents along the frontiers be prepared and held in readiness. Similarly the report urged that special transport and communication facilities be accorded by the governments of the Balkans to officials of the League in the event of another war scare...
...mother's pouch. Presently the dirigible flashed a signal; the long metallic umbilical cord was lowered again and the airplane whined close, ready to try the hazardous feat of mooring. While both crafts drowsed along at the same speed, the plane was hooked by a special apparatus, hoisted to the trapeze, lifted back into the body of the dirigible. The British Air Ministry declared that this experiment has been attempted before but never successfully. If the technique is perfected, it will be of incalculable value...
...Special arrangements for Harvard men have been made by the Boston Junior League, in admissions to the ball and entertainment to be given Wednesday evening at 9 o'clock, in the Grand Ball Room of the Copley Plaza...