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...idea of the course is to give both theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of aerial photography, with the added thrill of really flying. Lectures are given on four phases of the work, and this theoretical knowledge is then made use of in actual photographing. Captain Albert W. Stevens, of the Air Corps, will give the first series of talks on the chemistry of developing and printing the negatives; from there, the embryo fliers will advance to the interpretation of photographs taken from the air. To an inexperienced observer, aerial photographs are either wholly or partly unintelligible...
...stage from a trapeze; a baby is born; down to Boston to get help from Fred's family. She enters a magnificent mansion, which might be situated on Beacon Street, and meets her mother-in-law, father-in-law, and sister-in-law; the last mentioned would thrill psychologists who are looking for cases of spinsters with arrested development. Kitty soon tires of the nostalgic atmosphere and goes on the road with an old friend; he soon tires of her company and takes to drink and younger women...
...Florida lies that editorial goldmine known as the Cuban Situation. Ever since Theodore Roosevelt, Cabot Lodge, and the forces of American journalism won the island for us, it has presented a really pleasant problem, one which was colorful enough to make good copy, and small enough to afford a thrill without a menace. Before and after the turn of the century a rousing fight centered about the question of Imperialism, Dollar Diplomacy, and such, lapsing into obscurity only for a time, as the economic conquest of the sugar resources was completed and as we turned our eyes to more pressing...
...Navy Claude Augustus Swanson strode out of the White House and thrust himself into the thick of it. Not since this 71-year-old Virginian took office in the Cabinet had the Washington air been so electric with martial preparations. Fresh from the Presidential presence, he felt the thrill of national excitement as newshawks clustered about him plied him with questions...
...building is going to feel much of the wartime thrill of patriotism. The thousands of telegrams, from manufacturers and chambers of commerce and others have already arrived, giving the message of national unity of purpose. These carried lights and color with their thrills...