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Written two days before in his little study aboard the Indianapolis, his address bore in its plush use of adjectives the inevitable mark of having been composed under the Southern Cross. On the desks of the assembled Congressmen and Justices lay copies of it neatly mimeographed in Portuguese. As President Roosevelt sonorously began, some of his hearers leaned forward attentively to stretch their knowledge of English, others followed with the text, sentence by sentence, with their fingers so as to applaud in the right places...
Blindness handicapped her last years but she bore this affliction, not with pity-seeking sorrow nor with despairing indignation, but rather with a calm and philosophical acceptance. She accepted reality bravely. "I dislike making a fuss," she often asserted...
...Francisco side, the motorist ascends a mile-long ramp up Rincon Hill, then over the world's two largest suspension bridges, stretching end-to-end for two miles to Yerba Buena ("Goat") Island. There, the highway dives for 500 ft. through the world's largest bore tunnel, 76 ft. wide, 58 ft. high. Next come the world's third largest cantilever bridge (1,400 ft.), five smaller spans, then a long trestle to the Oakland shore. Total length is eight and one quarter miles. The whole structure is strong enough to resist the mightiest earthquake ever known...
...Officers' Training Corps unit. In most schools benefiting by public land grants under the Morrill Act of 1862, R.O.T.C training for underclassmen is compulsory. Old stuff to most educators are the perennial kicks against it by boys who think either that fighting is wrong or drilling is a bore (TIME, April 6 et ante). New stuff, however, was the action Oregon's adults took last week to end the particularly loud squawks against R.O.T.C. which students in two state colleges have been raising for years. On a proposal to make R.O.T.C. voluntary in the two schools. Oregon...
...highest point in his account of the voyage of a convict ship that transported female convicts to New South Wales. All the sailors took wives from among the convicts on their first day at sea. Nicol fell in love with a modest, unfortunate girl named Sarah Whitelam, who bore him a son before the twelve-months voyage was over. Determining to take her back to England and marry her as soon as her sentence was served, he got a berth on a whaler, found that he could not return to New South Wales. An escaped convict told him that Sarah...