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...aerodynamic principles of the airplane are being used in the construction of racing automobiles. After much experimentation in the wind tunnel or aerodynamic laboratory, the Farman Brothers, famous plane constructors, have produced an enclosed racing automobile with all aluminum body, which is of perfect streamline form. The cutting down of air resistance adds many miles to the already enormous speed of such racing vehicles...
...points-94% perfect. (P. 6.) The Tusitala-which will enable the Sophisticates to escape from a Babbitt world. (P. 15.) Breakfast confidences such as Colonel House receives...
...religious and moral earnestness have sought to attain the perfect life by two different paths--contemplation and service...
...lonely vacation from journalism and a noisy family. He and his flivver, by an accident only Einstein could fitly explain, crash right through the fourth dimension and into Utopia?where he finds a handful of other Earthlings, as bewildered as he at finding themselves translated to a new and perfect universe. The others include those whom Mr. Wells seems to regard as typical public nuisances of a modern civilization?a titled lady, pleasant, but futile, a millionaire lord of the shady variety, a semi-prominent demi-mondaine? French diplomat, rulers of empire such as Lord Robert Cecil and Winston Churchill...
...Warren G. Harding: "Delegations from the Shriners of Ohio called on Mr. Harding on the south lawn of the White House. Because of my indisposition I watched from the White House balcony. At my request two of the Shriners' bands played my favorite piece: The End of a Perfect...