Word: travels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winner of the CRIMSON essay contest for the $600 travel scholarship offered by the United States Lines will be announced in the CRIMSON tomorrow morning, and the essay setting forth the policy whose inauguration, in the opinion of the contest winner, would most benefit the University will be published in full. Besides picking the winning essay, the judges, Professor Bliss Perry, Mr. D. M. Little '18, and Assistant Dean E. A. Whitney '17 have awarded honorable mention to two contestants, and their essays will be published in subsequent issues of the CRIMSON...
Radio Cinema. A "primastic ring" made a tiny point of light travel across a photographic plate in a succession of parallel adjacent lines, the strength of the light varying with the strength of incoming radio signals?a process much like that used by grandmothers in producing the image of a penny by blacking with their pencils a paper pressed over a coin. Result: wireless photography. Prophecies: the auditor of a radio account of a baseball game, or of an inaugural address, or of a scouting aviator's running report, would some day see the players, the President, the battle...
...Hugo Eckener (TIME, Oct. 27), onetime German pilot of the ZR3 (now the Los Angeles (TIME, Dec. 8), before the Royal Aeronautical Society of London, last week, presented an interesting estimate of the commercial possibilities of airship travel based upon the service of three large airships for regular Atlantic crossings. The approximate cost of each trip would be $50,000, while the revenue would be something like $80,000 from 25 to 30 passengers (at a rate of about $5 for each pound avoirdupois), $15,000 from mails and $20,000 from baggage and express packages, leaving a neat profit...
...week of spring vacation which opens tomorrow will be a busy one for the University in an athletic if not in an academic way. Representatives of six sports will travel abroad to seek early season honors on field, river, court, and diamond...
...CRIMSON prize essay contest will be decided today at a joint meeting of the Managing Editor and the Board of Judges. The winner will be awarded a scholarship of the value of $600 which will entitle him to travel on a United States Lines tour of Europe in a party conducted by the Students' Tours Association of Princeton...