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...Panama Canal, blasting and steamshoveling his way through mountains. To look old enough for the job he grew a beard. When he straightened out several miles of the Northern Pacific R.R. in Montana he risked the loss of $100,000 in equipment by discarding the slow mule-pack transportation and using cows through the swift currents of the Yellow stone River. In 1915 he decided China needed railroads, so he went there, got the concessions, built the roads. During the War he bored a hole through the mountains of Washington to reach the spruce forests and provide building material...
Describing his recent ejection from Russia, Leon Trotsky (real name Lev Davidovich Bronstein) declared that agents of Dictator Stalin appeared suddenly at Trotsky's place of exile, Almaata, on the borders of Russian Turkestan, and informed him that he, his son and Mme. Trotsky must pack up their possessions and prepare to leave Russia. Soon all were bundled into a motor bus and since the snow was all but impassable a tractor was attached to pull the bus. Presently bus, tractor and Trotskys sank into a snowdrift. Seven hours were spent in extricating the exiles and conveying them...
...wretched pass from Ketchum to Dunn went wild and the alert end, ever watchful for a loose ball, snatched it and tore down the field with the whole Yale team scrambling for him like a pack of angry wolves. White outraced them all, but Yale's captain, Howe, was after him and after 60 yards of White's dash, Howe, in a final desperate jump, tackled the Tiger on the five-yard line and the terrific impact sent them both into the mud. White slid over the goal line on his face...
Drawn and shuffled and dealt out anew, last week, were a whole pack of Ambassadors, Ministers, Special Agents, a World Jurist and a Governor General...
Brisk and dapper in his striped suit, Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes paused a moment deep in thought, as the New York train pulled in at Northampton, Mass., station. Had he remembered to pack: 1) his purple socks? 2) his lemon-yellow shoes? 3) elegant ties, in hues and number sufficient? And had he packed too, in his mind, plenty of his bright, daring, fetching, original phrases, enough to give the solemn old boys a jolt...