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...together." Correct perhaps as to "so far" and "so well together" but not as to number. While stationed at Nixville, near Verdun, late in 1918 (September or October, I believe), many American and Allied soldiers including the 5th U. S. Division and others in battle around Montfaucon enjoyed the thrill that came from a flight reported (London Daily Mail, Army Edition) to include 310 Allied planes of all kinds and descriptions. First came a wave or "v" formation of seven planes. This was not unusual. Slightly interesting. In a moment, another similar formation- still not too unusual. Within...
...Flora C. Franks, widowed mother of Bobby Franks who was kidnaped May 22, 1924 and butchered by thrill-hunting Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, turned the first spadeful of earth for a three-story clubhouse memorial to her dead son in Chicago. The memorial, provided for in Franks Sr.'s will and abuilding under supervision of the Young Men's Jewish Charities, will be equipped with gymnasium, swimming tank and complete athletic plant...
...forced to continue. But the modicum of truth remains that progress does not regularly take place along the line of least resistance. Unless the secondary graduate has learned that the satisfaction of a problem vigorously and wisely attacked, of a job well done, is an adequate substitute for the thrill of superficial interest, unless he has developed a measure of intellectual curiosity and mental will-power, he is unlikely to be a success in college, whatever his facility in a direction where he may have found case and entertainment. These are the most important liquid assets which the secondary school...
...other memberships at $50 each. Its first title was just "The Stock and Bond Exchange." later "San Francisco" was added, and 1927 the present title of "San Francisco Stock Exchange" was purchased from what is now the drowsy if not dormant "San Francisco Mining Exchange" where penny-shares sometimes thrill by becoming dollar-stocks for a while...
...room beside a dental kit, charged by Mildred Rankin with having unnecessarily pulled three teeth out of her head. Arrested for practicing dentistry without a license and for common assault, Elwyn Bentley confessed that he had pulled teeth out of 200 women. Said he: "I guess I get a thrill...