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They rammed their ice-borer, which was to give them escape if they were gripped under ice, against an ice chunk, smashed it. Ice crushed the runners atop the Nautilus, which were to enable her to slide against the underside of ice fields. She sprang two leaks, became miserably dank within. The propeller edges became saw-toothed and bent, grinding against small ice. But at last the Nautilus emerged from the ice-mashed Arctic and Sir Hubert radioed the world that he was all right...
...horse show in Montebucarlo, Italy, a horse bit a large chunk out of Theodore Crema's cheek. In intense pain and indignation, Theodore Crema thrust his hand into the horse's mouth, recovered the gob of flesh, drove with it several miles to a hospital. Surgeons restored the piece to Theodore Crema's face...
President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University last week made formal though indirect announcement that the university had received another sizeable chunk of the gigantic income of Edward Stephen Harkness. Had Columbia not received it, the U. S. and New York State would have taken it as income taxes. The gift, Mr. Harkness indicated, was to be allocated to the great Medical Center which the university and Presbyterian Hospital have organized in upper Manhattan; and the Medical Center should use it for an Eye Institute.* Pathologists can describe diseased eye conditions. Ophthalmologists can treat and cure a great many...
...advertising lineage the World-Telegram got practically all of the Evening World's. The American got the morning want ads-a juicy chunk of business. Among the others the Times seemed to show the greatest gain, the Herald Tribune, and Daily News ranking next. But the newspapers' excited advertisements in each other's pages, and the Easter trade, made all advertising figures inconclusive...
...upon the committee and Congress but also upon the public. Republican Representative Crowther declared that Mr. Young was "the only witness who showed any tinge of human interest." The Press began to headline the "Young Plan," much to the concern of Republicans who hated to see so great a chunk of political capital being passed to a Democrat. Actually Mr. Young had proposed nothing new or original. The idea of upping Bonus loans was advocated last month by Director Hines of the Veterans' Bureau as the "least undesirable" plan for aiding the jobless ex-soldiery. Chairman Johnson of the House...