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...contest was not on the regular schedule, and was played on soft ice. The Jayvees were slated to cross sticks with Belmont Hill School last Saturday at Belmont, while the Freshmen were due to play Milton, but both games were called off on account of lack...
...shaped Zeiss projection instrument like a Martian death-ray machine straight out of an early Wells novel. A packed audience of moppets and grownups murmured as 2,700 stars winked in their proper places on the dim vault overhead, as the planets glowed, as the Milky Way streamed in soft splendor. A lecturer identified stars and constellations with a flashlight beam. As the projector moved on its complex nest of gears, aeons of astronomical time flashed by. Realizing that this was no idle frivolity but a magnificent glimpse of infinity, Charles Hayden was moved as he had rarely been moved...
Lincoln, Henry Ford's sole representation at the Show, featured better ventilation on its line of V-12's. Franklin, only air-cooled make in the U. S., slyly poked fun at the hullabaloo over knee-action wheels by exhibiting an Airman equipped with the customary soft full elliptical springs. Big blocks under the right front and the left rear wheels left the Airman standing perfectly level. Stutz, still hammering on Safety as its chief selling point, showed its improved single and dual valve lines...
...Zoological Society, an African big-game hunter, breathlessly announced that he had found a strange, fresh footprint on Loch Ness's banks. Cried he: "It is a four-fingered beast and has feet, or pads, about eight inches across. I should judge it to be a very powerful soft-footed animal about 20 ft. long...
...that this is the drink of rugged individualism. There is something of the mountains of its birth in this Leadville Moon; those mountains are heavy, yet aspiring; they fall away in rugged, breath-taking scarps, and pyramid to jagged causeways of rock far above the clouds, descending again over soft alpine meadows and pastoral beauties; all this and more is to be found in Leadville Moon. It does not act like other drinks; it bowls one over, then replants; it is in no sense a cheap, shoddy imitation; it is a true invention, a step on the road of Progress...