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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Fort Eustis, Va., to Fort Story, near Norfolk, Va., an armament train carried the 52nd Railway Artillery Regiment with 8-inch rifles, 12-inch mortars, ammunition cars. A battalion of the 12th Coast Artillery also mobilized at Fort Story together with submarine minelayers, a searchlight platoon, an ordnance company and weather men. Great 16-inch coast guns were unlimbered in their seaside pits and tilted at the far horizon. Then, as the attacking "fleet" steamed near in the defenders' fancy, shore guns of all sizes roared, bombs burst in midsea, aircraft towered and circled to observe and report...
While the Virginia capes were being defended, bevies of airplanes swooped and wheeled over Langley Field, Va., to demonstrate how they would treat an infantry regiment and wagon train should they have been landed by an invader. The Army Air Corps' high command issued winged invitations to the press and all flew out from Bolling field to see the show...
Today Cambridge except for those luckless youths who must watch the game from the Union scoreboard, is as empty as a box marked "discarded baseballs" after an assistant manager has been near. By train, boat, automobile, airplane, even a few by "ride soliciting", Harvard is making its way southward, as the swallow flies. Last night New York was filled with the men who by day walk Mount Auburn Street. This morning the gentleman from Indiana and Westmorly, arm in arm with the class baby of 1911, will measure with his eye the cool quadrangles of Princeton, and to him they...
Hebrew Union College stands on a little knoll overlooking a park on the outskirts of Cincinnati. It was founded by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise in 1875 to train preachers in the Reformed Jewish faith. Tuition is free; the number of students is small (117 this year). Famed graduates are Dr. Judah L. Magnes, president of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem...
Three Sinners. There are more than three sinners. In fact, all the leading characters, except the little child, sin. But they do it nicely. Pola Negri, as the wife of a German count, takes a train from Berlin to Vienna, meets a musician, stops off to spend a night of love. Soon she hears that her train was wrecked before it reached Vienna and that she was reported dead. So, seizing opportunity by the hair, she puts on a snow white wig, changes her name, becomes a woman of adventure. Later, her husband meets her, does not recognize her; cinemagoers...