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Catholic Foch & Atheist Clemenceau. Spruce, sword-handy professors at the French War College were first to detect the military genius of Student Foch, quick to realize that he possessed a unique "geometric brain," keen, strong, supple, above all superbly balanced. Eight years after graduation he was welcomed into the faculty, achieved popularity and reputation in a few swift years, produced those master manuals of the new warfare, The Principles of War and The Conduct of War, and presently was gazetted Lieutenant Colonel without ever having commanded on a field of battle. With a future of promise unsurpassed before him, suddenly...
...slow mule-pack transportation and using cows through the swift currents of the Yellow stone River. In 1915 he decided China needed railroads, so he went there, got the concessions, built the roads. During the War he bored a hole through the mountains of Washington to reach the spruce forests and provide building material for airplanes. He has just finished a huge dam in Vermont...
...possible for a handy amateur to build a glider out of spruce or pine, wire, and fabric. Design is quite like that for a monoplane. (One popular German model amazingly resembles a Lockheed-Vega.) Wingspan may be up to 65 feet (span of a staunch commercial Ford trimotored transport). But 25 feet is more practical for beginners. The National Glider Association at Detroit will furnish blue prints. However best advice warns against amateur construction, or patching together of old motored plane parts...
...Bjelbo. Last week, on the very site of the Jarl's first great hall, in a palace blazing with made-in-Sweden light bulbs, the preliminary, pre-nuptial ball was given by Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden. Over from Oslo for this event dashed Norway's spruce Crown Prince Olaf. This time he came openly and gaily, not as he clandestinely used to come (while courting Princess Martha) with his hat turned down, his coat turned up, and his eyes masked behind a skier's blue snow-goggles. So successful was this disguise that until...
...decorations for the Living Room and Dining Room have been entirely arranged for, being in the hands of Thomas F. Galvin Jr., florist. The two rooms are to be decorated in spruce trees and smilacs. There is to be a bower of flowers at the entrance to the Living Room while the fireplaces will be entirely hidden behind a screen of smilacs...