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From this initial point of departure Mr. Brooks advances with assurance and easy facility. The evidence which he adduces serves to bolster his case well. The spiritual desert upon which we find ourselves in the beginning was made by Jonathan Edwards. "He was able to spin his inept sublimities by subtracting from his mind every trace of experience, every touch of human nature as it really was among his innocent country folk." He was a rapt and isolated scholar whose wrathful theology found no listener in the market place. On the other hand our great Dr. Franklin with his immense...
...house fly. Commonest in the Mississippi Valley, they are closely related to the black flies which pester humans farther north. Buffalo gnats breed in swift-flowing streams, attaching their wormlike larvae to the downstream side of a large rock or log. After a month or six weeks the larvae spin cocoons, soon emerge full-grown. The first spell of warm weather sends them swarming to fields and barnyards...
...Eliot House crew will stick to legitimate members after this. The other day they found themselves three men short just as they were about to journey forth on a trial spin. Three outsiders, who knew little or nothing about pulling an oar, were picked up and the eight started down the river toward the Ford Plant...
...crew was shifted this way and that. No expense was spared to get a pair of specially designed shells. Thinking the new shells too slim, coaches ordered another one, said they must have it in four days, got it. It was decided the crew was to take a night spin to get the feel of the water at flood tide. Precedent was broken when they went up to the course at Putney a week earlier than usual, a week ahead of Cambridge. Then bad luck began to break. Snow and biting cold set in. No. 7 poisoned his finger...
Just before dawn next morning, Lieut. Norman Burnett ran into a howling snow-storm on the Cleveland-Chicago route. The ceiling closed down and he missed a beacon. Then his gasoline line clogged and he went into a tight spin. He had no mail so he took to his parachute. In landing he fractured...