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...human eye. Its tent is "the greatest stretch of canvas ever raised," its acrobats are "the greatest aggregation of mid-aerial gymnasts in the world," its tigers are "the greatest and most thrilling wild animals ever offered in this or any other country" and its elephants are"the biggest brutes that breathe." Miss Bertha Beeson is "positively and obviously the most sensational high wire artist of all time," Mile. Leitzel " breaks every law of gravity," and the circus advertises its clowns as being so funny that they "would even make a prude smile." It seems never to have occurred...
...Berlin's airport, members of the municipal government went up in eleven airplanes. The eleventh machine crashed on landing, killing two city fathers and injuring a third official and the pilot. This was an unfortunate though dramatic finale to a celebration intended to advertise the Tempelhofer as the biggest airport in Europe. Almost on the same day at Cracow, Poland, a military plane lost a wing and fell through the roof of an apartment house. The gasoline tank exploded, killing a man ill in bed as well as the occupants of the airplane, and setting the house on fire...
...American musical plays in Australia, Sally and Mary are making the biggest hits. Sally is now in its 14th week in Sydney...
...University fencing team will leave tomorrow afternoon at one o'clock for New York to attend the intercollegiate tournament at the Hotel Astor tomorrow and Friday. It is the biggest team in years, as six men and Coach Danguy will take the trip, there being four foilsmen and two duelling swordsmen. In the foils, E. H. Lane '24, captain, E. L. Lane '24, R. Fleer '24, and J. S. Sharp '24 will represent the University, while J. K. Watson '24, manager, and C. J. Shearn Jr. '23 will comprise the duelling squad. According to schedule, the foils matches will...
...city university campus, one of the biggest and finest in the country, is to be constructed for Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. Nine acres of ground facing Lake Michigan in downtown Chicago, one mile from the Loop, will be converted into $10,000,000 worth of buildings and campus, and will constitute the downtown division of the university. James Gamble Rogers is the architect. He designed the Harkness Memorial Quadrangle at Yale University...