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...accustomed to seeing sullen, malignant customers riding up the Hudson River in the cars, their wrists manacled to the wrists of impassive burlies who usually sit on the aisle side of the seat. Just before the trains reach Ossining station there is a platform at the base of gray rock bastions which tower above the track. Here the trains stop and the burlies yank their reluctant companions to their feet, shove them shuffling ahead to the end of the car and down the steps. The train pulls out through a short tunnel as the burlies usher their charges...
...victory of Pilot Van Orman made him world's champion balloonist for this year. Last month he won the Litchfield Trophy by flying the Goodyear IV from Little Rock, Ark., 780 miles to Petersburg, Va. (TIME, May 10, AERONAUTICS). Boettner and the Akron N. A. A. finished second in that race. Pilot Van Orman also won the Litchfield Trophy last year with a flight of 1,072 miles. His avoidance of the Baltic Sea last week reflected a lesson learned in the Bennett race last year when he and the Goodyear III dropped into the Atlantic, being rescued...
Some of the characterizations can be described by no other word than "immense" in its slangiest sense. Andrew Jackson, rest his democratic soul, is an "old turkey cock, on a forest rock" and later on "his face was a talon, his hands were talons." You do not need to collect postage stamps to know that Andrew Jackson did look like that. Jezebel puts on her various guards and jewels and "stopped the honest prophets as they marched upon their...
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...turn in her need, if not to her sons? Shall we be outdone in loyalty to Harvard, and in giving to Harvard; by those on whom she has less claim, those whom she has not fostered? Hardly so. The idea of the Harvard Fund is founded upon the strong rock of perfect logic, and it will make its own appeal to all loyal Harvard men." William W. Fisher, '04. Vice-President, Southwestern Division, Associated Harvard Clubs Dallas...