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...chooses this place to dine, a good, substantial dinner. But all the while he was eating it he was speculating; speculating on the possibilities of extravagant fancies finding their fondest desire. Great bowls of red and white were constantly being borne in to other customers; they might contain the hope of a being hungry for spring, and for strawberries. And then he had one. Of course; that he should have done so goes without saying. He had one, and it was awfully good--but fortunately, he had only...
...anglers luckless with the fly this essay has proved a great boon. What if it did ruin the author's reputation as a fisherman? Although "Fishing with a Fly" and "Revisiting a River" contain the same charm, the same dry humor and lucid beautiful prose, they can not surpass this defense of the amateur fisherman. Why, I can not say, for such a paragraph as this lacks nothing...
...feet long on Holyoke Street. Building on this site will necessitate tearing down the old Dunster House Book Shop and the white frame building which had been the home of the Advocate and the Harvard Dramatic Club. These buildings are two of the oldest edifices in Cambridge. Both buildings contain many unique features, each as old hand made doors and board floors containing planks 18 inches wide...
...with icebergs. They are to patrol steamship lanes, chart location of icebergs, figure the speed and direction of iceberg-drift, issue warning to Atlantic liners. Though equipped with mines designed to blow icebergs to pieces, they often find bergs which explosives can hardly injure. An iceberg may contain 36,000,000 tons of ice, eight-ninths of which are below the surface of the water. When dynamited, a giant berg merely loses a few large chunks, which then become small bergs, or "growlers," and float faithfully along with the mother-berg. Thus the Tampa and Modoc are detectors rather than...
Although more men than women were admitted to New York State insane asylums last year, the percentage of new cases was less for women than for men, because-the State Department of Mental Hygiene discovered last week-insane women live younger than do insane men. New York State asylums contain approximately 44,500 inmates. Last year their upkeep cost...