Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Pierce is one of the leading authorities in this country in the field of communication engineering. The naval officers who are studying under him will work with the the hydrophone, an instrument used for depth finding, signalling under water, and transmission of speech through the sea. The radio will be the special field of some of the men, as the primary, and often the only means of communication...
...belong in that class which has seen almost all the Zane Grey pictures it wants to see. None the less there is entertainment in "The Water Hole" and the Technicolor bits of the picture are quite good. Jack Holt and Nancy Carroll are the luminaries and manage to tie up the East with the West...
...party issues from far before the time that they become mere political slogans. Enthusiastic attendance at last minute discussions and oratorical contests is hardly sufficient to acquaint the average college listener with the bewildering vibrations of the political shuttle-cock as it bounces from farm relief to prohibition, from water power control to oil scandals. In a democracy, an educated man ought also to be an educated governor, and a college is remiss in a full performance of duty if it fails to equip its graduates with a working knowledge of public affairs. College courses, under the necessity of remaining...
...friend before the footlights in praiseworthy poses. On the stage Jack Dempsey is an honest prize-fighter with a crooked manager; he loves a brunette who, because her brother is in the power of a bad gambler, agrees for his sake to put catnip in the champion's water-bottle so that the gambler may be assured in advance who will win the big fight. The audience, on the other hand, knows that no catnip or other poison can hamper Champ Jack Dillon in the performance of his art. The last scene shows the fight itself. Dempsey throws...
Cornell has $2,000,000 women's residential halls in construction, excavations for men's dormitories, a new water supply, a new bridge over a gorge, two new bells among its chimes...