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...pilot under such conditions is helpless. He cannot tell where there is a spot to land; he cannot guess whether the earth is thousands of feet away or grazing the wheels of his landing carriage. Sergeant Gilbert, moreover, was not familiar with the route. He decided that a crash was unavoidable. He jumped...
Hosts of Roman Catholics flock to Rome in a Jubilee year. In 1450, so great was the crowd that passed over the bridge of St. Angelo, that the bridge collapsed with great crash and carnage. This year, streams of the faithful from all parts of the world are already starting on their pilgrimage. In Manhattan, a prelate gave them warning: "For a great many, I fear, the pilgrimage will resolve itself into a de luxe sightseeing tour of Europe. To many it will be an opportunity of visiting the Europe which, to them, is bounded by the boulevards of Paris...
...suddenly killed Cock Robin? "I did!" cried Minnesota.* "I marked him sure. I wounded him sore." Robin Red Grange, most brilliant of backs, took the field at Minneapolis with his fellow lllini and at once raced off around end for a touchdown. He started other races, but Minnesota ends crashed him, Minnesota secondary defense heaped upon him. In the second period, he was subdued. In the third, his arm hung limp, he left the field for the season. Meanwhile, Minnesota's offense plunged, pounded, plowed. Illinois sank back to third in the Conference standing. Score: Minne- sota 20, Illinois...
...poetry of bell effects has always appealed to composers for the piano. In Borodin's Au Couvent, a bell tolls for 18 measures, silvery, gentle, relentless; Debussy composed an intricately sophisticated pattern for bells in his Japanese Temple Gongs; stern bells crash and roll in Tschaikowsky's 1812 Overture; sleigh bells jingle like hard, gay laughter in his Troika (Op. 37, No. 11); bells happily pious tinkle in the Celeste of Korngold's Die Tote Stadt; the profound and icy-hearted Kremlin bell booms in Rachmaninoff's Prelude (Op. 3, No. 2). Many are the other...
...like speed and solidity whenever unlucky Barrett achieved a perpendicular posture. Gritty Barrett retained consciousness until the sixth round. Then, after grovelling for the count of nine, he dragged himself erect a final time, only to behold Walker racing toward him, muscles bunched, face set in the "killer" look. Crash-indubitably, the welterweight champion of the world was still Mickey Walker...