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...Army, Dartmouth, and Pennsylvania. The Yale team has defeated New London Submarine Base, Wesleyan, Providence College, Dickenson, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Connecticut Aggies, Pennsylvania, Brown, Princeton, and Holy Cross and has lost to Fordham, C. C. N. Y., N. Y. U., Brooklyn K. of C., Dartmouth, and Columbia. A comparison of the scores of the games played indicates that a close match may be expected...
Twelve years ago when she became the first woman magistrate in New York City, Jean Norris was 42 and a "fine figure of a woman." Life, for her, promised exceed ingly well. She had Health and great vitality. Her salary was, by comparison with most career-women, high...
...comparison with Laurencin is superficially apt. Both artists, charming personally, paint delicate, decadent little girls. With extreme freedom of line, the work of both is eminently suitable for arty magazines. Both have the trick of inserting self portraits in most of their pictures. But Marie Laurencin is 45, red haired, very much a woman of the world, served a long painstaking art apprenticeship before her paintings caught the public fancy. Jack von Reppert-Bismarck is bashful, blonde and 22, looks about 15, and is something of a child prodigy...
...observer had remarked that the plane behaved much as an alighting bird breasts the wind with its wings to check its speed, the comparison would have been more than poetical. The wings of the biplane, adjustable in flight, did just that. Lower and upper wings are rigidly connected with struts, remain in the same relation to each other. But by a hand-crank in the pilot's cockpit, the lower wing can be moved fore & aft, pendulum-like, through an arc of 14 degrees, tilting the upper wing to the same degree. About to land, the pilot sets...
...investigator of the courts-score one for Mr. Steuer and a breathing spell for Tammany which had Deen severely discomfited through the attack upon its Magistrates. Enemies of Tammany saw partially in the fact that the City Government had acted so emphatically against the Bank of United States in comparison to its attitude in the failure of City Trust Co. two years ago (for which a Tammany Magistrate, Judge Francis X. Mancuso, has not yet stood trial...