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...French count separately each backward and forward stroke of the tuning fork's vibration. In the U. S. and Great Britain one vibration is considered to consist of two strokes. Thus the U. S. and British A is 435-45 (one-half the French) vibrations...
Month ago news reached Angora (Turkish capital) that the Kurds, a warlike backward race inhabiting a region which overlaps both Turkey and Persia, had risen in rebellion against the reforms of Turkish Dictator Mustapha Kemal Pasha. They had declared a Holy War. Dictator Kemal knew what to do. He ordered 15,000 regular troops, 15,000 reserves and Turkey's entire air force to the front, commanded them to exterminate without mercy every single Kurdish rebel...
...Singer lashed out with a left hook and knocked the champion down. At the count of three Mandell got up. Singer knocked him down again and Mandell stayed on the canvas while the timekeeper's mallet thumped seven times. Again he got up, his brain dead now. He wavered backward helplessly while Singer, groping wildly for a decisive punch, hit him again and again, finally knocked him unconscious with a left and right and was proclaimed the new world's champion. Time...
Pomp. "At 9:30, exactly on time, as always, the orchestra struck up God Save the King. As we all rose to our feet the royal procession entered, preceded by two Indians in scarlet coats and black and gold striped turbans, and officers walking backward, their swords held before them...
...most expensive players, keeps them in a good humor. He paid his former saxophonist, Ross Gorman, $50,000 a year. His own earnings are about $500,000 a year. He likes striped ties and custard, owns a ranch near Denver, likes to wear an old golf cap turned backward, takes a private doctor with him when traveling, can make faces as funny as Fatty Arbuckle's used...