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...example of Transvaal Platinum, Ltd. has been contagious, and other prospectors have also found the precious metal in adjoining districts of the Witwatersrand, although in many cases not in paying quantities. Enough has been done to indicate that a very large section of the Central Transvaal may be potentially platinum-bearing...
...literature, undistinguished save for its pitiful cleavage to the dust of mediocrity, has lost one of its few bright lights of promise; and the thought of New England, and particularly of the University, has been deprived of an intellect whose power and originality were of a peculiarly rare and precious sort...
...GREAT GATSBY-F. Scott Fitzgerald-Scribner-($2.00). Still the brightest boy in the class, Scott Fitzgerald holds up his hand. It is noticed that his literary trousers are longer, less bell-bottomed, but still precious. His recitation concerns Daisy Fay who, drunk as a monkey the night before she married Tom Buchanan, muttered: "Tell 'em all Daisy's chang' her mind." A certain penniless Navy lieutenant was believed to be swimming out of her emotional past. They gave her a cold bath, she married Buchanan, settled expensively at West Egg, L. I., where soon appeared one lonely...
...during litigation between the Wrights and the Curtiss Co., Langley's machine with some changes was flown at Hammondsport on Lake Keuka, N. Y. It is difficult to determine what exactly the changes were. But Mr. Wright resents the fact that the Smithsonian allowed Langley's precious model to be used for "the purpose of private parties to a patent litigation." And he also resents the card in the Smithsonian attached to the Langley plane- This is the first airplane capable of flight...
With their precious swaddled charges, nursemaids have come back to the yard, glorifying it with pink bands and baby carriages, bringing with them a touch of domesticity, a gentle reminder of Spring. The long-suffering tradesmen of the Square have forgotten their unpaid bills and are lounging contentedly in the doorways, watching the student exodus--secure in the knowledge that their creditors will soon be back...