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...Army Ordnance Association's* ninth display at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., the biggest U. S. demonstration of destructive devices since the War. Bombs dropped and banged. Tanks lurched and rumbled. Field artillery galloped and crackled. Machine guns chattered. Smoke screens fumed. The courteous Signal Corps advised through loudspeakers: "We advise our guests to place their fingers in their ears," but only a few heard, having rammed in ear wadding before the 16-inch chaos was followed by two more convulsions, one from an 8-inch Navy rifle, one from a 12-inch howitzer...
...Kramer of McComb, Miss., last week announced that next month he would have a cheese factory operating at McComb, and quickly thereafter four more-at Magnolia, Liberty, Osyka and Tylertown, Miss. Five condenseries are also to be built in the state- at Starkville, Aberdeen, Tupelo, Kosciusko and Macon...
George Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen...
...knighted by King George in 1925 for his service to education. He is Examiner in all the universities of England, a Fellow of the College of Preceptors, London, and Principal of the London Day Training College, a school of the University of London. He has been principal of Aberdeen and Glasgow Training Colleges, and lecturer in Education at the University of Glasgow, as well as president of the Educational Institute of Scotland, and of the British Association, Educational Section. In 1902 Dr. Adams was named University Professor of Education in the University of London, becoming Emeritus...
...Adamson, St. Andrews, zoology at the University of Southern California; Frank N. Astbury, Liverpool University, architecture at Columbia; Ian William M. A. Black, St. Andrews, chemistry at Yale; Margaret E. Cranswick, King's College, London, education at Columbia; Robert Fisher, Herford College, Oxford, economics at Yale; Isabella Gordon, Aberdeen and Imperial College of Science, London, Zoology at Stanford; Hilda A. C. Green, Westfield College, London, literature at Pennsylvania; Donald B. Harden, Trinity College, Cambridge and Aberdeen; archaeology at Michigan; Richard L. Lechmere-Oertel, Birmingham, mining engineering at Columbia; Edward P. Mumford, Christ's College; Cambridge, entomology at California; Keith...