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...boomed the half hour after 12 o'clock noon, two crows, calm and collected, were waiting on the Thames ready to dip their oars, about a minute later the starter's gun barked and off they were, rowing a smooth beat, while a slowly drizzling rain gradually was turning into a heavier downpour. That was the start of the eighty-second Oxford-Cambridge boat race last Saturday on the historic Thames. The two crews were tied in the number of victories--there were 40 wins for each and one dead heat--and now these two historic colleges, rich in tradition...
...have satisfied him; thinks that some day overwhelming proof will be forthcoming, hopes science will supply it. So far, "respectable psychic phenomena have been confined to mediums, automatic writing, table tapping, Ouija boards." But there have been "materializations": "ectoplasmic" bodies are seen proceeding from mediums; spirit hands, asked to dip themselves in paraffin, then to dematerialize, leave paraffin gloves...
...very least, that Argentina was about to abandon the gold standard. Yet the gold coverage of Argentine currency issued by the Nacional Bank stood at 82% last week. Canny bankers discounted the President's amazing order as the latest greatest Irigoyen eccentricity. Argentine bonds and currency took a rapid dip on the Buenos Aires exchange, quickly recovered. In Argentina it is of course thoroughly unsafe to ask: "Is the President...
Vice President Curtis looked over President Hoover's right shoulder, watched him pick up a pen, dip it in ink, write at the bottom of the document the word "Herbert." Then he put the pen down. Speaker Longworth, on the left, watched him pick up a second pen, dip it in ink, write the word '"Hoover." Then the President looked up, smiled. He had got at last what he wanted as farm relief...
Every day in Manhattan hundreds of Interborough Rapid Transit subways charge through the warm odorous gloom underneath the streets. Uptown they soar to daylight on elevated tracks, downtown they dip beneath the east river to Brooklyn. I. R. T. advertisements say that 1,000,000 people ride them daily. Each ride costs a nickel. I. R. T. potentates have long claimed that the nickel fare is not enough to meet expenses...