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Then, with the graduation of the center trio, Gaffney, Jones, and Kessler, Wilson was moved to a guard. Dick Harlow felt that there was little to choose between him and Boston, and that by such a shift both could be in the game at the same time. Now, with Russell's temporary withdrawal from competition, Wilson has again been used as a convenient gap-plugger. He has played center at Andover, and for a time on his Freshman eleven...
...hoping to live there quietly as spectators of a world gone mad. They soon find both England and their chosen role impossible. Zena goes back to her native Russia; Julian despairingly enlists. Thereafter the narrative is governed less by probability than by convenience: coincidences pop up as required, scenes shift and actors speak as the prompter-manager too obviously dictates...
From Mr. Kent's Puerto Rican postman a brown girl in a white shift has just received and opened a letter by which she appears greatly affected, as well she might. It reads: "Puerto Rico miuniera ilaptiumum! Ke Ha Chimmeleulakut Anga-yoraacut. Amna Kitchimi Autummi Chuli Wapticum itti Cleoratatig tit." To the art officials of the Treasury Department, who hired Mr. Kent, as to other civil servants including Post Office Department guides, this gibberish had seemed merely one more artistic whimsy. But Mr. Stefansson said it was a message in the Kuskokwin dialect of Eskimos in Southern Alaska which...
...people who read his daily column in 40 newspapers is the fact that on & off for 10 years Mr. Broun, whose heart is as big as his stomach, has been contributing (almost literally) a weekly article to the Nation. First news that Editor Kirchwey had of his shift was when the New Republic sent in copy for an exchange advertisement in the Nation announcing the acquisition of Mr. Broun. However, Editor Kirchwey (who agreed to the advertising swap) had long been aware that the Newspaper Guild's unpressed president had not been happy in her columns. Last April, after...
...there had been only two major improvements in the paper airscrew invented by Leonardo da Vinci some 450 years before to pull toy helicopters to the ceiling of his study. One was the Wright Brothers' development of a two-bladed '"prop" of laminated wood, the other the shift in the 19205 to aluminum alloy blades whose pitch could be adjusted on the ground to suit various operating conditions. In 1933 the Hamilton Standard Propellers division of United Aircraft Corp. won the Collier Trophy by producing the first controllable pitch propeller, ''the gearshift of the air." This...