Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain R. M. Clough '24 was the star of the University team, turning in a score of 36 for the last nine holes, which was largely responsible for his win in the foursome. J. J. Mapes '25 aso played a consistently good game, turning in a score of 38 for his first nine holes. The fourth member of the Harvard team was W. G. Soule...
...with Captain Merrill and Robb covering the 220 distances, Kane the 440 lap, and Watters the final half-time stretch. Staff opposition is looked for in this race, especially from Penn State, Yale, Georgetown, and Cambridge University, England. The finish is sure to be spectacular with Lowe, the English star and Heffrich of Penn State to oppose Watters over the 880-yards distance...
Using a selenium cell, which is photo-electric (i.e., when sensitized by light rays, it gives off an electric current), French engineers of the military wireless service, General Gustave Ferie, M. Jouaust and Major Mesny, amplified waves from Capella, the blue star of the first magnitude in the constellation Auriga, into audible sound waves. The transformation was effected by a bulb of four electrodes, with much higher potential than the audion bulbs commonly used in wireless. The star is 71 light years (over 400 trillion miles) from the earth. The sounds were audible over a telephone to a considerable distance...
President Obregon received Mr. Warren to the strains of The Star Spangled Banner. The American walked up the diplomatic stairway beneath archos of flowers to the golden reception room. In an interview with the President the Ambassador declared, under instructions from President Coolidge: "The relations we desire with this republic do not infringe in any way upon its nationality. Nations arise from deep causes that well up in individuals possessing common spiritual qualities and ideals. Your people possess theirs and we possess ours." He disclaimed any intention of aggrandizement on the part of the U. S., or a desire...
Francine Larrimore, the star, saves the character from being a hybrid bud. She seems to range in age from eight to eighteen, according to the impulse of the moment. By turn she is petulant, frowsy, winning, pusillanimous, firm. But she fuses this all together with her indomitable histrionic spirit, and saves the part from being a teapot tempest of tears. Tom Nesbitt and Wallace Ford provide good shadows for the background, but the aunts are mere stalking horses...