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Major H. O. D. Segrave, one-time British aviator, braced himself behind the wheel of a 24-cylinder, 1,000-h.p., 4-ton automobile of British make (Sunbeam); zipped along the tide-smoothed sand at Daytona Beach, Fla.; set a new record for the straightaway mile, 203.792 mi. per hour. Task completed, Major Segrave dismounted to receive prompt recognition from onlooker John D. Rockefeller Sr., in the shape of four shiny new dimes...
Last November one Tomas Zafiro, Tarahumara Indian, startled the athletic world by running from Pachuca, Mexico, to Mexico City, a distance of 100 kilometres, in 9 hr. 37 min. (TIME, Nov. 22). Last week he went after his own record; covered the 62½ mi. (approx.) in the almost incredible time of 7 hr. 35 min. Mexican sportsmen are preparing a petition to have this super-event included in the next Olympic Games...
...license number of an automobileful of thugs fleeing town. Chief Zober and his aids were impressed by the device's perfect functioning for a radius of 150 ft., waited only for a city wide demonstration to adopt the equipment for the Passaic force. Inventor Rusch claimed a 3.5-mi. radius on a wave length (15 metres) short enough to insure secrecy from the listening public...
...Michelson of Chicago had remeasured the speed of light, setting it at 186,284 mi...
...strange-sounding syllables. The bridegroom is known as "edzigonto," the bride as "edzigontino," the best man, "edzigkunolo," the bridesmaid, "edzigkunolino." "Cu vi deziras havi ci tiun virinon kielvian langle-gan edzin on," Rev. Ashley ceased the solemn fluent intonations, gazed inquiringly at the edzigontino. Said she, forsaking virgin existence: "Mi tion volas." Later, the party adjourned to a restaurant where the edzigontino played violin selections, the sole happening of the day not in Esperanto...