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Another light workout was prescribed yesterday for the University football squad. No scrimmage was held, nor is there any likelihood that there will be more than a short session this afternoon...
This distance is 2,100 nautical miles. When the ships had accomplished it (as there seemed every likelihood of their doing, what the guard ships, the good weather) they would have beaten the non-stop flight record established last month by the Frenchmen, Arrachard and Le Caitre. In Honolulu, crowds gathered to watch a tiny plane crawl across a bulletin board, nearer, nearer. When it arrived there would be a holiday...
...relented. Dread Melville Bay, frigid storm-pocket of that Greenland Coast, lay unexpectedly calm and free of ice. Still skirting shore, the ships made for Disko Island (their coaling station on the way north), the Peary leading the way with MacMillan aboard. The latter discussed with Commander Byrd the likelihood of repairing one of their two disabled planes and making exploration flights over Baffin Island and Labrador before steaming on down to Maine...
...imported via Singapore, the same route over which British plantation rubber comes to this country. Therefore, say the brokers, even if the negotiations between the Netherlands Government and the Rubber Association of America result in the adoption of the latter's proposals, there will still exist the likelihood of a rubber shortage here...
...prolonged continuation in office of the Military Directory." Professor de Unamuno and Señor Vicente Blasco Ibañez lost more sympathy for Spain than they gained by carrying on despicable propaganda. The fact remains that the Directory is firmly in its saddle and there is no likelihood of its being unhorsed. It has kept a firm hand on the reins; and its riding, if not superb, has at least been good (balanced budget, improved financial condition, order at home). The Spanish Nation must wait until the Directory dismounts; and, on the whole, seems content to do so. Even...