Word: trips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposite face of the earth, while these men gained their ways, George Eastman, head of the Eastman Kodak Co., was pursuing his second leisurely hunt* with camera and gun through the high lands of Uganda and southern Sudan. The scientific importance of his trip lay chiefly in the cinema films which, with the aid of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson,† he took of African mammals at their private affairs. Of lesser importance were the rare white rhinoceros and the more common water buck which he killed so that he might give them to the Natural History Museum at Rochester...
...blend properly. Pictures giving the illusion of three dimensions have also been cast and screened. To behold them, spectators have been obliged to use special and cumbersome opera-glasses. Nonetheless, these are stages on the way to perfect photography, and it may well be that upon his next trip George Eastman, to whom scientists owe as much thanks as he to them, will carry equipment that will record his exploits in three-dimensional and four-color exactitude...
...three months, in the gold rush of '49, George Gordon Gardner toiled his way across the continent. Last week his granddaughter, Miss Sue Hill, flew from Piedmont, Calif., to New Brunswick, N. J., in a mail plane, completing the trip in 34 hours' flying...
...rain and snow, only two of the four, tennis tournaments scheduled for the spring trip last week were completed by the University team. The Harvard players' won one of these tournaments defeating the Navy at Annapolis, Saturday, 5 to 1, in a close contest...
...features of the advent of Naval Science to Harvard has been the spirit of practicability which has permeated even the first year of the course. The presence this week of students in Harvard College in the crew of a United States battleship is not an innovation; there were similar trips last spring for the Freshmen registered in Naval Science 1. Eagle Boats took parties on a week end course of instruction, and late in June fifteen students cruised south to Annapolis. The satisfactory completion of a novitiate that included long vigils on watch and five hour stretches of stoking...