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With a groan the editor of the day takes a glance at his dummy. There, on page one, where he had intended to put a news box, is a gap. The candidates have long since started their trek toward their beds, and the other editors who had come in to write their assigned stories, had left the building dark and gloomy...
...world, the $100,000 Futurity. At the start, almost out of sight of the grandstand, Rosemont took the lead. Balladier, Chance Sun and Plat Eye caught Rosemont as the field crossed the main track. Then Joseph E. Widener's Chance Sun shot out ahead, opened a gap of four lengths between himself and Colonel Edward R. Bradley's Balladier by the time they reached the finish. The favorite, Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's Psychic Bid, jostled at the start, finished eleventh...
Yesterday Coach Walsh used Jones and Blatchford in the guard positions, but neither one of these newcomers can fill the gap left by Gundlach's injury. Bob Brookings, Schumann, Casale, and Husband are the only ones left who have proved themselves of Varsity calibre...
...religious influence of Egypt. Most valued find was a ewer inscribed with characters like magnifications of bizarre microbes. On examination this writing revealed affinities with Sinaitic scripts discovered near Mt. Sinai and with Phoenician scripts found in Syria. Orientalists were excited at this unexpected bridging of an ancient linguistic gap...
...bell rang. Between two spheres the size of grapefruit leaped an electric flash. The gap was only six inches, but the flash was blinding, the report thunderous. The voltage was not extraordinary (150,000), but the amperage was?250,000. The current used by a 40-watt incandescent bulb is about one-third of an ampere. Two hundred fifty thousand amperes is a greater current than man has ever produced, a greater current than natural lightning...