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Characteristically, Skipper Taylor concluded: "Great Caesar's anchors! . . . If we and the United States would only pull together . . . we could rule the world and enforce peace...
...well known that a highly efficient airplane engine can lift only 50 Ibs. for every horsepower that it can generate. Figuring the average man to weigh 150 Ibs., he would need at least three horsepower to pull himself through the air, and he can produce only one-tenth of a horsepower himself. Ability to magnify that puny force by aeromechanics is Captain Dibovsky's claim...
...despatch from Bucharest, last week, told that Prince-Regent Nicholas of Rumania had forcibly arrested a truculent taxi driver who refused to pull over out of the way of His Royal Highness' roadster. Reputedly "Prince" Nicholas seized the protesting man by the collar, lifted him into his own automobile and sped to the police station, where he left his prisoner." Persons who recall the bantamweight proportions and receding chin of Prince Nicholas, 24, think that this story...
...James's until the War. He, a distant relative of King George, was accused of being too pro-British and of having refused to accept the German viewpoint in several important issues. Dr. Stresemann plainly wanted to know if it were not possible for Austria and Germany to pull together in the League-no doubt with the idea of pushing the anschluss through, "when the time is ripe...
...hear about the Lady Godiva stunt a girl is going to pull...