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...short, wiry, nervous, eager, tremendously serious. I have talked with him only once, but it is impossible to forget this dark, vivid little man. No man who was not serious could be so successful, or could take the pains he does in collecting material for his stories. His new novel, to be called Wild Horse Mesa, is about a great mesa which rises above the canyon country of southern Utah. Mr. Grey has made three attempts to climb this piece of land, in order to provide the climax for his novel?each time he has failed. The climax...
...about it) regions of incandescent gas on the sun's surface, whirling with a centrifugal motion. Although they are really brighter and hotter than the most powerful electric light, they are so much cooler than the 'body of the sun itself, that they appear to us as dark spots. They move in very definite cycles of eleven years and one month. Starting at the poles of the sun, the spots increase rapidly in number and they move nearer the equator. They are most numerous in parts which correspond to the temperate zones on earth...
Both England and France are bending every effort to explore their African lands, develop better means of communication and begin the exploitation of the Dark Continent's natural resources on an expanded scale. The swift development of Africa's virgin resources promises the shortest cut to restoring natural wealth and prosperity, and reducing the huge War debts. The key to the process lies in communication and transportation. The British apparently expect to open up the continent from north to south by the Cape-to-Cairo Railroad and its feeder lines, while the French have established lines of communication...
...even the best disciplined minds. While it would be entirely delightful to be tall enough to see over the fences of football fields and baseball parks, going home to bed after the game would present difficulties of striking proportions. And if Mr. Ringling's giant, feeling about in the dark for the tooth powder, selected the wrong jar, the result would be colossal...
...spite of such patriotism, however, on the part of M. Painleve, it was his noncommittal adversary, M. Doumergue, who raced home many necks ahead of the many intriguing dark horses, war horses and white hopes. His attitude seems to have been perfectly correct throughout, though somewhat cool and a trifle restrained. It is a model, in fact, for the perfect politician. Having extricated himself from his party caucus, he was not bound to efface himself when his opponent received the nomination. And when an appeal to his party loyalty was made, to effect his withdrawal, his reply was a master...