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...three big wire services, the AP, the UP, and the INS, as well as three or four men from each Boston paper and from several other out of town papers, were also present. Science Service, an organization specializing in the gathering of all scientific news, sent a large fraction of its whole staff...
...were ten full games ahead of them and, to all appearances, pennant winners. The Detroit Tigers, handicapped by the illness of their catcher-manager. Mickey Cochrane. who had a nervous breakdown when his team failed to hit its stride at the season's start, were a bare percentage fraction ahead of the Washington Senators...
...some discussion of whether the observations were dependable and, if so, what could be the cause. Ordinarily radio waves are held close to Earth by the Kennelly-Heaviside layer of electrified air. "Echoes" have been observed, however, which indicated that the signals sometimes escaped and bounced back, in a fraction of a second, from some higher atmospheric layer.- It has been assumed that these vertical detours caused an illusion of a slackening of horizontal speed...
First day of the meet Cornell surprisingly qualified nine men for the finals to Harvard's five. Next day, in the 3,000-metre run, Jim Rafferty of Fordham heard footsteps pounding behind him five yards from the finish. He turned his eyes for a fraction of a second. A runner flashed past to win the race by inches. The runner was Herbert Cornell. His victory gave Cornell's team five points-enough, with five more for Walter Wood's first in the discus throw, a substantial block of points for seconds, thirds, fourths & fifths...
Better than any living man, Senator Byron Patton Harrison of Mississippi represents in his own spindle-legged, round-shouldered, freckle-faced person the modern history of the Democratic Party. For all but a fraction of the years since the fledgling Republican Party rose to power in 1860, the lot of the Democrats in national politics has been to denounce and deplore. For all but a fraction of his 17 Senatorial years, Pat Harrison, a Democrat by temperament as well as by birth and conviction, has played his Party's historic role with superb skill and enjoyment...