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...Shortly afterward I saw lights flash on the water. I changed my course to approach the light and soon heard men hailing me from the water. I stopped the ship, turned on all lights, lowered boats and put life boats over the sides. I saw mattresses and wreckage and pulled one mat over the side of the boat. We got four men. I saw some men sink before we could get to them. After this no more men were found...
Nine meteors that never touched the earth have been analyzed and their constituent elements classified by astronomers of the Harvard Observatory. A momentary flash of light as these shooting stars passed overhead, fifty to seventy miles above the observer, was all that was needed for this scientific detective work...
...word of testimony once it is on the record. One of his most famed convictions was that of former New York State Superintendent of Banks Frank H. Warder for his part in the failure of Manhattan's City Trust Co. in 1929. At 47, his black eyes flash, his black hair bristles...
Through pedagogs' dreams flash the golden names of colleges which are currently hunting presidents: Harvard, Princeton, Virginia, Illinois, Toledo. Changes are expected at Washington; its President Matthew Lyle Spencer submitted a perfunctory resignation last month. Andover is looking for a headmaster. Last week another name went on the list, with the announcement of the resignation of President Thomas Franklin Kane of the University of North Dakota, who approaches 70 and a Carnegie Foundation pension. A Latin and Greek scholar, Dr. Kane graduated from De Pauw and Johns Hopkins. Before going to North Dakota in 1918, he was president...
...fool firing blank cartridges." Not until he saw Mayor Cermak drop did he realize what was happening. Then he wriggled out of the crowd, raced by Mr. Roosevelt who was calling out "I'm all right," and dove to a telephone under the park bandstand to send a flash...