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...will be Admiral Brumby when Admiral Reeves moves up, succeeds to the post of Commander-in-Chief. But Admiral Reeves's appointment does demonstrate the new cohesion between the Navy's air force and its sea fleet. During the Hoover Administration naval aviation was constantly being thrust forward as a unique fighting arm by ambitious, energetic David Sinton Ingalls, just as military aviation was being spotlighted by F. Trubee Davison. President Roosevelt abolished these young zealots' jobs as assistant secretaries for air in the two departments. Today a Navy airman is first of all a sailor, though...
Under the blinking street lamps Antonio Sanchez stood, heels together, muleta waist high. The cape fluttered and the bull charged, once, twice. Then just like old times Antonio Sanchez sighted along the blade and thrust home...
...room of the Senate District of Columbia Committee. There amid a cloud of cigar smoke five Senators and five Representatives, conferees for their respective chambers, tackled the serious business of just how far down into the pockets of 125,000,000 inhabitants of the U. S. the Government should thrust its hand during the next fiscal year...
...stepped onto the black strip of linoleum, laid across the centre of the square, silver-walled room in a sudden, tense silence. Miss Mayer wore her usual fencing costume, a short white dress. Miss Lloyd, in a white jacket and black velyet trousers, scored a touch on a stop-thrust, then another, on a direct attack. Miss Mayer evened the score with a remise and a stop-thrust. The score was tied again at three-all, then at four-all before the spectators, remembering that Miss Lloyd (U. S. champion in 1928 and 1931) was the only woman who defeated...
Swift and terrible as a sword-thrust is angina pectoris. Disease or degeneration may narrow the blood vessels which supply the heart, or a tiny clot dam one of them. Then, usually with exertion or emotion, excruciating pain stabs the heart, radiates through the chest, shoots down the left arm. With the pain comes a feeling of suffocation, an anguished sense of impending death. Sometimes Death comes with the first attack; sometimes, as it did to Banker Otto H. Kahn last week (see p. 63), after many...