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Since the balmy isle in question which lies off the coast of Portuguese East Africa, would cover an area equivalent to that of an elipse passing through Manhattan, Des Moines and Richmond, the exact whereabouts of Krim's exile were but vaguely indicated...
...coast of Connecticut seven squat little ships rode the grey waves of the Atlantic at dawn one sombre morning last week; a thousand men waited the order to "Blow her out" which would start the sunken submarine S-51 toward the surface from off her slimy bier in the ocean...
...Guildi necessarily resembled those of a detective as much as an archaeologist. Three months ago a tourist picked up in Cyrene a fragment of an old bust and brought it to Rome; Guidi set out with his assistants, and for three months sifted the shallow loam of the old coast town for other fragments. Piece was laid to piece; the statue grew like a head emerging from the casual, apparently unrelated strokes of an artist's crayon, until at last it stood complete and the wide marble eyes, the straight nose descending under the helmet's shadow...
Sixteen huge thighs kicked as one, sixteen monumental wrists snapped down, eight long oars feathered the water of Lake Carnegie and dug in deep for another stroke. The crew of the University of Washington was rowing against Princeton. They had arrived from the West Coast a week before to perfect their technic and between spells of rowing their large shapes had been seen posing about the town in sweaters adorned with little oars-a crew of giants. Two of them were six feet five inches high; their average height was six feet three; even the coxswain...
...main stem of the Western Pacific runs 927 miles from San Francisco to Salt Lake City.* It was once, financially, a hazardous railroad, an iron hope of the executors of the estate of Jay Gould for making a coast to coast system out of the Gould holdings. In the rocky country past Ogden, Utah, the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific dominated; if the Goulds wanted a new road they would have to build one over the mountains. The plan cost money-so much that the Gould roads collapsed and passed into the control of the Equitable Trust Co. Alvin...