Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following in the wake of the Leviathan, which has been carrying Freshmen onto the Charles for several days, 13 shells of the University flotilla were launched on the Charles yesterday. Except for a brief row on January 13, the cruise marked the first venture of organized eights onto the river this year...
When the three men came back, the church was silent again. They found the tramp lying in the organ loft, asleep, wrapped up in a uniform that some fake Santa Claus had worn for Christmas. They spoke to the tramp to wake him up, then arrested him for playing the church organ. He said that his name was William Nolte, that his age was 23, that he had been living in the church for a month, that he had once attended Sunday School there...
...went on the front page. Well and good! But on that same day one of the world's leading physicists, Professor Franck of Gottingen, arrived for a four day stay during which time he delivered a series of three excellent lectures, and the CRIMSON doesn't know it yet! Wake up, old fossil, and become aware of the world about you, or else sink further into narrowness and ignorance and the well-earned contempt of the University!! Yours truly, Engene W. Pike...
...Luis Pereira de Souza. Three days in Rio and two more of inland excursioning, to be followed by a swift return to England, was the vacation program of the onetime British Prime Minister. Ever to the fore, he made the now smart British holiday trip to Brazil in the wake of famed Poet-Jungle-Chronicler Rudyard Kipling who recently "rolled down to Rio" and stayed to praise a land almost as rich and wondrous as "Kipling's India...
...great white albatross soared round and round a South Atlantic ship. For days it followed, never lighting, snatching small fish from the waves, offal from the ship's wake. Sailors caught the albatross and aerodonetists studied its 17-ft. wingspread, its 4-ft., 25-lb. body. The albatross is the largest and strongest of seabirds, and scientists have tried to learn from it the method of its easy flight. At London last week Capt. Victor Dibovsky-43, aviator since 1908, inventor of gears to permit the firing of bullets through the revolving propellers of airplanes, winner of a British...