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...present airplanes dominate defensive measures of all kinds. But Brig. Gen. Hugh Aloysius Drum, Commandant of the 2nd Coast Artillery District and Pershing's Chief of Staff, announces an unpleasant form of retaliation. This will take the form of an anti-aircraft gun firing a 250-pound shell of high explosive. No direct hit will be required. Detonation will disturb an immense volume of air, wrecking any airplane in the vicinity...
...crews will be within a week, Coach Stevens decided late last night. At that time he also determined to retain three men, B. R. Wiesman '25, W. A. Coolidge '24, and J. R. Hoover '24, on the University squad. Wiesman and Coolidge will row in a pair oared shell today and Hoover will be placed on one of the four crews as soon as he has recovered from a slight illness...
Equipped with Coronas (type-writers), golf sticks, orations in English , themes on hydraulics, tortoise-shell spectacles, 250 sons and daughters of New China studying at Eastern colleges and universities marched onto Brown University's campus at Providence, R. I., held the 19th annual conference of the Eastern section of the Chinese Students' Alliance...
...beetle with a hard shell is destroying fruit and even attacking chickens, according to reports from Wheeling...
Professor Albert Einstein: "In a letter to a pacifist paper, the Berlin Friedenswarte, I explained my resignation from the League of Nations Committee for intellectual Coöperation: 'I did it, however, with inner reluctance, because the hope had not quite died in me that into this shell of a League of Nations a better content might yet grow in time. I am comforted by the thought that in my place one of the cleanest, finest men was elected, Professor Lorentz of Haarlem, whereat nobody could be happier than I. May the League in the future prove my harsh...