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...star plays a worthy young man who becomes a pirate to avenge his father, murdered by other pirates. Vanquishing the leader of the wicked crew, he assumes command and takes the next prize singlehanded. Thereon he finds a lovely girl (Billie Dove). Subsequently he humanizes the pirates...
...church will go up on land which John D. Rockefeller Jr. now owns. An apartment thereon will be torn down when tenants' leases expire next October. Meanwhile the architects, Allen & Collens of Boston and Henry C. Pelton of Manhattan, who have had ten draftsmen working for two months, will work for six more months on the details.? The building will be of gray stone, probably of Indiana limestone, over a steel skeleton. It will cover practically all of the 22,500 feet of land (225 feet on Riverside Drive, 100 feet on W. 122nd St.) Its nave, 100 feet wide...
...part of any individual directly or indirectly connected with the movement of such craft might have avoided such loss. In this sense, and in this sense only, can allegations of direct or indirect individual responsibility for the loss of the Shenandoah and the loss of life consequent thereon be supported...
...fellow members, I know that of old, Cecilia and Seraphs were fascinated and men were enraptured; I know Timotheus, with magic strain, led rocks, trees and beasts to follow him; I know that the notes of Orpheus entranced them and enthralled the underworld and caused the gods to gaze thereon with envy, and I know that David drew from his harp a chord which swept the gloom from the brow of Saul and flooded Israel's palaces with music and laughter." (Applause...
...these modulations consist in alterations of the length of the carrier wave by fractions of a centimetre (down to 9.984 m., up to 10.016 m.). In the instrument that receives the multiplex or "scrambled" messages, one circuit is made sensitive to the carrier wave, other circuits to specific modulations thereon; much as the slot of a lock receives a key's blade and the tumblers are touched by the key's teeth...