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...flying time while he hunted in vain for fog-bound Bolling Field, finally put down on Washington-Hoover Airport. He stopped for fuel twice again, at Birmingham and Corpus Christi, Tex. The whole day's 2,500-mi. flight he described as "uninteresting" save for the thrill of landing his high speed plane in the rarefied atmosphere of Mexico City...
Besides allowing more frequent debates between European and American universities, this innovation will aid in stimulating debating wherever it is used. There could be no greater thrill for a debater than that of talking and being answered across an ocean. It is undeniable that a public speaker is inspired by the reaction of his audience. With the advent of radio as a forensic medium this will be denied him. But there will remain the satisfaction of speaking to an almost unlimited public both in this country and in England...
...Louisville. By night she flew west across Indiana and Illinois and made a surprise visit over St. Louis just before midnight. Early next morning she crossed Chicago, spent the forenoon idling along the shore of Lake Michigan. Thence to Milwaukee, and back to Chicago in the afternoon to thrill the crowds at the Yale-Chicago football game before heading east for Akron. Next day Rear Admiral George C. Day, chief of the Navy Board of Inspection & Survey, recommended that the Navy accept the airship. If Secretary of Navy Charles Francis Adams approves his recommenda- tion, preliminary work may begin...
...Jazz Thrill Baby Birth Control Flirtation Unmarried Mother Night Club Victorian Free Love Old Maid Flaming Youth After they have talked and laughed over the "word test," boys & girls may try the "opinion test," deciding quickly whether the statements about drinking, dancing and fornication are true or false. Then they are ready for discussion of problems based upon such questions as these (For girls): What is wrong in spooning, just letting a boy put his arm around you and kissing you? What is "passion"? What if a boy just steals a kiss? (For boys): What sensations (evil) come from spooning...
Beacon Hill felt a thrill of horror creep up its asphalt as it became conscious of the most recent number of the New Yorker. Even the Back Bay may have quaked a little to discover its secretary of the navy quoted as writing to the president of Harvard College; "Dear Lawrence--Long a student of heraldry, I have satisfied myself that the only families north of the Mason and Dixon line entitled to bear arms are the Winthrops and Saltonstalls." This was apropos of the question of putting a coat of arms on the gable end of the new unit...