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...heavy boat, 77 ft. long, "made," said Builder George Nicholson, "to last a quarter of a century, maybe more." Its hull is of mahogany on a steel frame. The deck of the Shamrock IV was only half an inch thick and made of plywood, but you could load bricks on the two-inch planks of the Shamrock V. It will be much less speedy than the graceful boats which raced for the America's cup in the old days and which, with tiny hulls, carried far more sail than modern racers and were useless for any purpose except racing...
Murfree Rinnard was a trapper who hated houses, loved the woods; he knew the forests of Tennessee, "Kaintuck," North Carolina like the back of his hand. When he had a load of furs he came to town to get drunk, get a woman, then get away. In Hill Town, N. C. he saw a girl he wanted. She fell in love with him, he slipped off before it was too late. But he was never able to forget her. Years later he saw her in the West: when the Chickasaws rose against the white settlers, Murfree got through...
...flying Barling and Lockheed Vega ships, respectively set new world records for altitude and speed with weight (TIME, March 10). Last week Pilot Sergievsky, who like his employer, Igor Sikorsky, is a naturalized U. S. citizen, filled a Sikorsky seaplane with two long tons (4,409.24 Ib.) of "pay load" and climbed with it to a height of 19,500 feet over North Beach, Long Island. The old altitude record for two-ton seaplanes was 15,837 ft. The significance: the U. S. is catching up with Europe in development of high-climbing, load-carrying seaplanes, essential to coastal...
...case of Juniors and Seniors this situation is particularly unfortunate in consideration of the theses and other additional work required of them in the second half of the year. To add to this already capacity load can do nothing more than force neglect in some field for the sake of checking up on routine assignments. In addition to this considerable grievance, hour examinations at the end of March divide the semester into two parts thus hindering the unification and sequence of the half year's work...
Just then a truck loaded with bricks blows its horn imperiously for him to get out of the way. He stops his inspection and hurries as fast as his sixty odd years will permit to crank his ancient Ford. More rivets are driven home, the truck starts back for another load of bricks and the famous professor scurries back to his class to lecture on the Platonic theory of education...