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...During the War he trained officers at Annapolis. Admiral Standley has had plenty of experience for his new job in handling for two years the Navy's new instruments, its Treaty Cruisers. He is also a gunnery expert. Of medium height, grey-haired Admiral Standley is regarded as "swell" by the elevator boy and telephone operator of his Long Beach, Calif, apartment house. His son & namesake is in charge of the torpedo school at the San Diego naval air station. One of his four daughters married a naval man. New commander of the U. S. Fleet will be Vice...
...they can not support themselves without jobs. They must either go on with their education, a course already made difficult for them by the University's failure, however unavoidable, to cooperate in the emergency by providing free post-graduate courses and college privileges, or they must go out to swell the ranks of the Nation's jobless. The essay contest suggests the possibility that under the stimulus of reward in a tangible from some practical solution to this problem will be found...
...course as a whole is welf worth while taking. It must be included in the program of concentrators in Biology, and others will do well to swell its already large enrolment, for the subject is one which should form a part of any liberal education and Zoology 1 is an excellent introduction to the subject, from any point of view...
...Dravosburg, Pa., Fire Chief Charles Thomas got drunk, turned in a false alarm, said to the judge, "Well, it was a swell night for a fire drill," was fined...
...came to a nation which possessed of him varying estimates, where he was severally regarded as an able dramatist, a senile jokester, or a great man. He leaves that nation with an unmistakably altered following, most of whom are inclined to soften the edges of their criticism and to swell the songs of their praise. For whatever else may have been established by Mr. Shaw's tour, the circumstance of his mortality seems now indisputable, and, in his own words, "the persecution cannot be for much longer...