Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long been buried who fought and died at Vicksburg, Miss. Where the Confederate Army made its greatest stand, now stands a National Military Park. There was nothing really paradoxical about last week's ceremony at Vicksburg when Major General Frank B. Cheatham, U. S. A., representing Secretary. of War Dwight Filley Davis, accepted for the Federal Government a memorial statue of the president and commander-in-chief of the Confederacy which tried to overthrow that Government, Jefferson Davis...
...brilliantly, surely, with a perfection born of complete knowledge. Last week art critics who had forgotten Maler Ludwig Koch, painter of horses, were shamed by able polo expert for the New York World, Peter Vischer.* Expert Vischer listened to the old artist speaking of the days, long before the War, when he had lived in Vienna, ridden through misted bridle paths with noblemen in red coats and silver spurs, painted Lippiza and Kladrub, horses of the Emperor Franz Josef. Then Expert Vischer looked at some of the paintings. Always admired first by horsemen, then by artists who saw the anatomical...
Brazil, through a group headed by Dillon, Read & Co., offers in the U.S. $41,000,000 of an $85,000,000 issue. The rest is to be offered simultaneously in Europe. These 6½% bonds constitute one of the largest international loans since the War...
...Yale 1918. Other members of the class: Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison, Ohio State Senator John Martin Vorys (son of William Howard Taft's political sponsor, Arthur Isaiah Vorys), Playwright Philip J. Q. Barry (You and I, In a Garden, etc.), Book Critic John Chipman Farrar, Novelist Wilmarth S. Lewis (See MILESTONES, p. 24), Chevalier Artemus L. Gates of the Legion of Honor, Newell Garfield (presidential grandson), Arthur Yales (gargantuan golfer...
Professor Pierce is one of the leading authorities in this country in the field of communication engineering: and during the war carried on experiments in supersonics at the Bellevue Laboratory, Washington, D. C., to work out a means of detecting the approach of submarines. The naval officers who are studying at Harvard this year will work with the hydrophone, an instrument used for depth finding, signalling under water, the detection of objects on the ocean floor, and the transmission of speech through the sea. The radio will be the special field of some of lie men, as the primary...