Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...about half way between the two towns, the advancing rebels ran smack into a Federal force. A battery of artillery held the road, their six guns leveled. Rebel scouts ran forward, shouting Viva la Republica, believing these troops were friendly too. An officer's arm dropped. A roaring point-blank artillery broadside tore great holes in the screaming, terrified column. Wrote an eyewitness reporter...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt. - So impressed were U. S. citizens with the fame of their guest that few atteided the significance of his remarks. At a meeting of the New History Society, Bahai (universal worship) organization, he urged all pacifists to organize, suggested the League of Nations as organizer. His point: If only as much as 2% of men eligible for military service would refuse to fight, there would not be jails enough to hold them, there could be no war. Mme Rosika Schwimmer, pacifist-author, acted as interpreter when the regular translator was struck dumb with excitement...
...opening last week of one more new artery of air travel-Eastern Air Transport's line between Atlanta and New York∙-one spike-driver, had there been a spike to drive, would have been brusque, bulky Capt. Thomas Bartwell Doe, U. S. A. retired, famed West Point footballer, E. A. T.'s president. And another would have been tall, angular, pipe-smoking Frederic Gallup Coburn, president of American Airways, Inc. whose Atlanta-Los Angeles and New York-Boston-Montreal lines the E. A. T. stretch now connects...
...chemicals into "something approximating life." Dr. Crile had wanted to save the announcement for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which meets in Cleveland the end of this month. Said he: "I have been frightfully embarrassed by premature publication of this work. We have not reached a point where we can tell whether our experiment will be successful or a failure. I cannot tell how long it will take us to reach a definite answer in our experiment...
...benefit of the unemployed, 70,000 people, including Secretary of the Navy Adams and Secretary of War Hurley paid $600,000 to see West Point play Annapolis on a sunny afternoon in Manhattan, first Army-Navy game since 1927. Army's attack functioned smartly and the Navy backs could not move far when they had the ball, which was not often. But Navy's Captain Blimp Bowstrom was punting perfectly and the big Navy line always held when it had to. For three periods both teams played hard, tense, defensive football. Then came a play on which Navy...