Word: top
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortcomings of the U. S. as an airwise nation which General Mitchell considers important include lack of through transcontinental air lines, lack of transoceanic lines, the vulnerability of warships to planes ("battleships have become so top-heavy and useless that if they get a good crack below the waterline, they just turn over and sink of their own accord"), the excellent air targets which the aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga provide, the impossibility of protecting cities from air raids, the poverty of the Army and Navy in fighting planes...
Within two hours after this prediction, Rosa Ponselle sang her "Casta Diva." The great house listened. The top galleries bulged with humble music-lovers. In the boxes were the Italian Ambassador, Mme. Melba, Prince & Princess Bismarck, Margot, Countess of Oxford & Asquith, Lady Cunard, Lords Leesdale, Colebrooke and Monteagle, and onetime King Manuel of Portugal and his consort. . . . From top to bottom Covent Garden yielded itself to the spell of a glorious voice, forgot all traditions, burst into riotous applause. The third act brought another demonstration...
...Atlantic City, a Mrs. Tillie Anapol's baby son was hospitalized for diphtheria. She demanded to stay with him, but was of course ejected. She thereupon got a ladder, placed it against a window of the isolation ward, spent five nights and days on the ladder top, soothing, encouraging, comforting her young. Press photographers, marveling at such devotion, came to take her picture, drove her away...
...Top, Conn., June 7--Because of the rough water conditions below Red Top this morning, both the University and jayvee crews were forced to row upstream past Gales Ferry this morning...
...Top, Conn., June 6--E. J. Brown, Harvard crew ceach, continued his policy of shifting the men on his first two University crews this afternoon. Lawrence Dickey '30, rowing at No. 5 in the second boat, went to No. 3 in the University shell, replacing R. I. McKesson '31, who took Dickey's empty slide in the second crew...