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Last week the Aframerican Pittsburgh Courier dealt a hard blow to the powers of darkness. It announced that it would hereafter reject "all advertising pertaining to luck, mysticism, fortunetelling, get rich-quick schemes," and the like.
Three days, 19 hr. before at Roosevelt Field, Pilot Post had looked out into the darkness from the tonneau of an automobile in which he was chatting with a friend and observed that the rain was slacking. "All right, Harold; let's go," he had said, as he might...
Fortnight ago the London Daily Mail offered a $5.000 prize for the first glider flight across the English channel and back. One day last week Austria's famed Glider Pilot Robert Kronfeld, onetime holder of the world's record, cast loose from a towing airplane over Calais, tussled with headwinds...
Rowing in the afternoon was delayed until late because of a hard wind. The shell was finally towed down at about 7 o'clock and time trials were held rowing upsircam. No time was given out. The Jayvees, Freshman, and combination crews also went to the two mile mark for...
All such quizzes are fascinating, whether of the exam or "Ask me another" type. How many know this introduction, which is to appear in a prominent new English grammar book as a sample of beautiful writing: "The earth sighed as it turned on its course; the shadow of night crept...