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...scholarly sportsmen Derrydale Press reprints Mr. Markland's Pteryplegia: The Art of Shooting-Flying, a treatise in heroic couplets first published in 1727 ($10; de luxe edition...
...necessity took the Vagabond away from his book and drove him up to Widener. The heroic figure of Garibaldi soon evaporated in the thin, rational air of Cambridge and left only an uneasy sense of contact with something which was impossible. The grip on life which the great patriot had held was dissipated in a thousand petty realities. Sadly the wandering scholar sought an open gate into the Yard and passed into Widener's murky shadow. Like a prison, its sides honeycombed with the ghostly glow of half-lit cells, it dominated the night. Up the broad marble steps...
...down in its tubes, showed 4° below Zero. Across the bleak Manchurian steppes just south of Tsitsihar snowflakes scudded in a driving blizzard that nipped soldiers' noses, soldiers' ears. Well-publicized Chinese General Ma Chan-shan with 23,000 Chinese troops was about to make his heroic last stand against 3,500 prosaic but efficient Japanese soldiers...
...There have been no other people," said Professor Nordal, "who have given so much thought to poetry under such adverse conditions. Their literature is directly the result of their history; their vigor for conquest turned to a tendency to recount their heroic deeds of the past when they found themselves isolated on a barren island and unable to push on further...
California, land of promise in times of prosperity and catch-basin of the penniless in this time of depression, has adopted heroic measures in regard to its "non-resident unemployment situation." Twelve hundred recruits swell the ranks of the idle each day in California. Not all can be assisted by the state, and the problem is to find a sensible basis of classification. Accordingly, the state is to establish rock-piles along the eastern frontier, where the jobless can go to work splitting stones; and labor-camps in the interior, where the unemployed can earn food and shelter by cutting...