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...Foreign Minister Andrew Michalacopoulos left Athens for the coming session of the Council of the League of Nations at Geneva. Despatches told that he would seek League backing in an attempt to float a $40,000,000 foreign loan...
Looking down on Akron, Ohio, from an airplane a mile high, it seemed as if some gigantic bird had laid 15 spherical eggs on a field near the city. Soon the eggs rose and floated away to the northeast. The illusion was shattered; for no egg that can float in the air has yet been laid. Closer inspection revealed that these objects were balloons with baskets tied to their bottoms. In the baskets were anxious, active specks of men. They jockeyed with the wind, sailed away to Canada, New York, New England...
...they often find bergs which explosives can hardly injure. An iceberg may contain 36,000,000 tons of ice, eight-ninths of which are below the surface of the water. When dynamited, a giant berg merely loses a few large chunks, which then become small bergs, or "growlers," and float faithfully along with the mother-berg. Thus the Tampa and Modoc are detectors rather than destroyers...
...President Frank Palmer Speare a muscular, thick-furred canine, one of the famed Husky-dog team that took diphtheria antitoxin to Nome in 1925. It was a gift, a new Northeastern mascot, from Dog-driver Leonhard Seppala. Driver Seppala was present. He and the dog rode on a float from the station, with co-ed attendants. The blither spirits of Boston University (enrollment: 10,979) took a leaf from Harvard's book of etiquet and saluted the Northeastern parade with showers of eggs, ice, vegetables;. The Northeasterners did not retaliate. . . . Accepting the Husky-dog, whose team-leader, Balto...
...special comment. Perhaps one of the most striking is a composition "Ave, Verum Corpus", but Josquin Des Pres, a fifteenth century musician of the Netherlands. Coming just at a time when the technique of counterpoint was being developed, the work is made up essentially of two melodies that float like delicate silver threads now in harmony and now distinct, but always clear until finally they disappear almost imperceptibly as if wafted away in a breath...