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...youth step on the gas and set a-rolling the bus destined to carry the spirit of sportsmanship throughout the world. There is no finer ideal for the spirit of sportsmanship is the essential oil of the Sermon on the Mount. There is plenty of room on the bus for all, working-men, millionaires, ordinary folks, all ages, both sexes, for sport is the most democratic thing--the only truly democratic thing--in the world...
...Gillette's Ideal Order...
...kind of man who conceives an ideal order of society is, it seems, predestined to have the befoliaged type of face. There was Plato with his curly tonsorial scenery, Karl Marx with his generous whiskers, Lenin with chin shrubbery, Trotzky with a soup moustache. When one comes to King C. Gillette, famed inventor and manufacturer of the safety razor, one would think that regardless of any idea in his head, he would be clean-shaven. Not so. His book*-a manufacturer's view of society-possibly explains the razor man's moustache. What he proposes is, in effect...
Besides, in the present instance, the experiment was obviously not conducted with the proper attention to detail. The prisoner was a man of mature years, and was doubtless confirmed in crime; a long record of misdeeds should have suggested to the meanest intelligence that he was not the ideal type for a test case. Also, being familiar with police methods, he may have surmised that he was being invited into a trap; and acting on the theory that he was being given rope with which to hang himself, he determined no doubt that his moral demise should at least...
...country, a mixture of one ounce of the substance in five gallons of gasoline gave off 3.9% of carbon monoxide, as compared with 5.6% with the straight gasoline. Larger doses still further decreased the CO coefficient until between three and four ounces was reached, which Dr. Hutchison considers the ideal mixture. The compound will be inexpensive to manufacture, and will, if the results are sustained, make garages and tunnels as safe as mountain tops. The Society of Automotive Engineers is greatly interested in the discovery...