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...first on his right, then under his stamping stilts, then finally, long and frightening, bending and kicking in a fantastic goosestep, over road and into meadow on his left. At last, in Boston, having covered 45 miles in 12 hr., 20 min.,* Joseph de Virgilio flopped down from his five-foot, 15-pound poles. His legs, swollen to far above their normal size, could not support him; he was carried moaning...
...Five-Foot Shelf. Europe mocked, still mocks, the kind of thing this university-maker next did. Yet the popular outlines and abridgments of many subjects that followed his selected "five-foot shelf" of indispensable classics from the world's literature (The Harvard Classics) have been partly responsible for a level of mass culture in the U. S. higher than that to be found in any other land...
...page pamphlet, 3½ inches wide, 5½ inches long. How big will an encyclopedia be when shrunk for the Fiskoscope? No bigger than an ordinary novel. The Oxford Dictionary? A trifling brochure. The works of Balzac, of James Fenimore Cooper, of Thackeray, Scott, James Joyce? Slender dockets. Dr. Eliot's five-foot shelf will melt to the thickness of a few packs of cards and those advertisement-readers who seek culture for ten minutes a day can carry whole libraries in their waistcoat pockets...
...their hands in delight. Once the great gathering sucked in its breath and stood up in its seats with the shivering "Ah!" that fevers a plaza de toros when the matador is tossed. This was when Vadabelle, ridden by Dick Messcrop of Port Chester, N. Y., in taking the five-foot wall at the edge of the tanbark instead of the last jump on the course, went sprawling into a group of spectators, knocking them down like dolls. But no one was hurt; Vadabelle went back to her stall. Otto W. Lehmann's Princess Mary went jingling around with...
...however, was obdurate, and our ways parted. While I fought my way, inch by inch, through the Five-Foot Shelf, Tom spent his evenings improving himself by the I. C. S. method. By the time I reached the foot mark, Tom's salary had been raised. Three inches more, and it was doubled. Three inches more, and Tom was assistant to the manager of his department. My salary had stood still, but I was not downcast; for I had acquired nearly one-third of a liberal education. How little I realized what lay ahead . . . years of disappointments and failures...