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...Hampshire took the lead early in the race, Webster and Matthews striding out ahead of Harvard's quintet. As they neared the loop, the two New Hampshire runners still held the lead, with Playfair, Pier, Woodard, Scheu, and Channing close behind, all bunched within a space of ten yards...
...last Shaggy buffalo on the Western plains. Pre-empted the last free land-Now it is time (I have known it long in my heart} for this country To twist a lariat of us and throw it Over the ocean-to-ocean-flinging land And flip its loop across the lifted, crashing Defiant horns of the wild American spirit And with a twist around the saddle horn Drop it to earth, and on its sprawling hide Burn the clear new-world brand that unto men Shall be a witness of our heritage Wherever that great untamable beast shall toss...
...incoming liner steering for a light-ship finds its direction by rotating the loop antenna of the radiocompass. The beacon is strongest when the loop is parallel to the direction of the signals, weakest when it is at right angles. Since sound travels much more slowly through water than radio waves through air, the distance of the lightship can be computed by noting the time between reception of the beacon and oscillograph signals...
...hunt was on in Chicago last week for a frying-pan that would sound A flat, a soup plate that would give G sharp, a tea cup in B. Four erratic-looking men went from one Loop store to another, producing pitch-pipes, whacking on merchandise with wooden spoons. Clerks tried to interest them in bargains. Customers tittered and asked bewildered floorwalkers what it was all about. But the four strange shoppers went on about their business. They were assembling a kitchen orchestra for part of the thank-you concert that the Chicago Symphony was giving the patrons...
...American-Grace Airways is jointly and equally owned by Pan American Airways and W. R. Grace & Co. (bankers & shippers). It flies the west coast route and the trans-Andean jump in the parent air company's great South American loop. Last week it had flown nearly 5,000,000 mi., crossed the Andes safely 1,200-odd times...