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...first half of the soth Century, fanned by the crimson wings of war, the conquest of the air affected profoundly human affairs. It made the globe seem much bigger to the mind and much smaller to the body ... In the 19th Century, Jules Verne wrote Around, the World In 80 Days. It seemed a prodigy. Now you can get round it in four; but you do not see much of it on your way. The whole prospect and outlook of mankind grew immeasurably larger, and the multiplication of ideas also proceeded at an incredible rate. This vast expansion was, unhappily...
...country has an overabundance of coca leaves, from which the white-crystalline-powdered drug is refined. In the highland valleys of the Peruvian Andes, the green coca plants-stretch out for miles in cultivated fields, like wheat in Kansas. Use of the drug got its start after the Spanish conquest, when Peruvian Indians began chewing coca to offset the hunger and fatigue they suffered under their new masters. Later, miners took to chewing it to last out their long day, andinos to counteract high-altitude sickness. Last year 8,200 tons of the leaf were chewed up in Peru...
Last December the deal fell through. Though neither side would say why, shippers guessed that Lloyd's had wanted to keep the right to classify Japan's merchant fleet, while the A.B.S. claimed it by right of conquest. This week, in what looked like an attempt to freeze out the U.S. firm completely, Lloyd's merged with the British Corporation Register. Thus Lloyd's took over classification of virtually all ships that fly the British flag, and a good percentage of ships of other nations...
Henry Bradford Washburn '33, veteran explorer and mountain climber, will show his technicolor film. "The Conquest of Mount McKinley" at a meeting sponsored by the Harvard Mountaineering Club in the Geographical Building at 8 p.m. tonight. The technical points of the climb will be featured...
Verdeur's record-breaking conquest Saturday overshadowed the upset victories registered by Dartmouth's Jock McIntyre in winning the 300-yard freestyle and Don DeForrest, Pennsylvania captain, in taking the 440-yard freestyle...