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Carter's public and pecuniary motives coincided happily in various other ways. Because Fort Worth was rapidly becoming an oil center as well as a cattle town, Carter became interested in oil. He drilled 99 dry holes and was known as the "dry-hole king" before he ever reached...
With a dreadful swooping, plunging motion the plane swung all over the sky. Its oscillations were so quick that Bridgeman's trained reactions could not keep up with them. If he tried to correct one of the violent swings, he might act a trifle too late and make the...
Any football team which can absorb three dreadful losses--during which it scored 12 points to its opponent's 110--and then come up with an upset victory, must have more than praise-worthy spirit and courage. The 1951 Harvard squad, which had an abundance of both, probably did more...
His recent works are as short of smiles as ever, but they are also short of things to weep about. As one of his friends puts it, Shahn at 53 may still have one foot in Union Square, but the other is firmly planted in the abstractionists' circle. If...
"I remember how stricken we were when 47 Jews were killed in a pogrom in the Ukraine. We had days of mourning and fasting. But six million! That dreadful calamity-and the whole spiritual and material crisis of our time-are bringing American Jews back to the faith of their...