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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Germany is far in the lead in rocketeering experiment (her German Interplanetary Society has 1,000 members, including many leading scientists), France points with pride to Robert Esnault-Pelterie. A student of space-travel for 25 years, he recently established with his friend André Hirsch the Rep-Hirsch Fund which awards 10,000 francs annually to the author of the most original contribution to ''astronautics." Russia has her Professor Nikolas Rynin. In the U. S. the only important practicing rocketeers are Dr. Darwin O. Lyon and Professor Goddard. Professor Goddard is now working on experiments...
...football playing; instead, it made him better than ever. After a season on the sidelines, he has learned how to plunge straight through a line instead of shifting through a broken field, how to shake off tacklers instead of dodging them, how to throw forward passes that sometimes travel 60 yd. Stocky, black-haired, grey-eyed, McEver wears a helmet that always falls off. Tennessee footballers remember only once when he took time out-on a rainy day, when his trousers fell off as well as his headguard. Left end Merlon Derry-berry of Columbus, Tenn. has the highest scholastic...
...travel in the belly of the wind...
Every candidate must show distinction in some recognized branch of learning and must present a definite scheme of study or research. Only candidates who can spend their whole time in study, social intercourse with fellow students, and travel will be considered. W. W. Foshay '31 and D. D. Lloyd '31 were the holders of the fellowships last year...
...than most upon morally malleable persons who witness it. Joan Crawford, again a brunette, impersonates the mistress of a thriving politician (Clark Gable). Rich, wilful and ingratiating, he gives her the trite benefits of illicit love-an apartment with glass doors, a maid-of-all-work, fine clothes, European travel and an education in social politeness. These make an unsophisticated admirer, when they meet again, mistake her for a lady. After three years of pleasurable intimacy, Gable is threatened by a scandal. His mistress has been ennobled by experience and she defends his conduct in an impromptu speech...