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Nevertheless, one deep shadow still lies across the U. S. toy industry?the fear of German competition. Last summer, many other industries were worried for the same cause; but, one by one, they have recovered from their fears. The steel industry now has little concern about an invasion of U. S. markets by German products. But the toy industry is in a quite different position. Before the War, when our markets were wide open to the products of German toymakers, the U. S. toy industry was small. During the War years, with German competition cut off, it grew heavily...
Ponce de Leon had his filng in search of the isle of Bimini. In modern times science promises synthetic youth. But rejuvenation by the academic method seems the more popular way. Even Harvard has its "Old Dog" basking anew in the sunlight of knowledge and the shadow of an incognito. If retired bond salesmen and cotton merchants should take any wholesale notion to imitate these examples, the "Freshman Red Book" may come to look like an advertising handbook for Colgate's Shaving Cream...
...things scientific. The unusual feature of the eclipse of 1925 is that it will be visible in an unusually populous portion of this continent. One or two eclipses occur annually*; but many take place in out-of-the-way places; and one spot is not thrown twice in the shadow of a complete eclipse oftener than once in every few hundred years. The January eclipse will stretch over a region where none such has been seen in the memory of living man. Its narrow band of shadow will start at a point somewhat west of Duluth and stretch eastward, going...
Alexander Woollcott-"Miss Miller was followed by a shadow which could not be nipped off by all the nursery windows in Christendom . . . the shadow of Miss Adams...
...golf ball soared through the night. Stars twinkled overhead, night winds sighed as the ball landed, bounded, rolled up on a putting green unaccustomed to such nocturnal visitations. On the green, the ball moved steadily toward, was swallowed up by, a dark little shadow-the hole. No fairy-flight nor golfer's fevered dream, this. Back in the direction from which the ball had come, 246 yards over hump and hummock, stumpy little Gene Sarazen, onetime U. S. open champion, grinned and chaffed with many bystanders as he cracked out other balls into the night from the first...