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...tactical authority and mature, practiced perfection in backcourt stroking, he would surely do it. Immaculate and chipper, Perry dashed off the first set, 6-3. The crowd applauded and waited for Crawford to warm up. Playing on his baseline instead of behind it, gaining invaluable split seconds by taking Perry's shots just before the top of the bounce, stinging his steady backhanders into Perry's farthest corner, Crawford worked along sedately in the second set while his opponent's tension mounted with the score. At 11-all, Perry made a double fault that unraveled his nerves...
...that his policy of friendship emboldened France. Appointed temporary Ambassador to the U. S. in 1919. he spent four months in Washington without presenting his credentials to President Wilson, who was too ill to receive him. After England's general strike of 1926 Viscount Grey helped force the split which drove his onetime associate David Lloyd George out of the Liberal Party. Eye trouble which left him almost totally blind forced him to retire from politics, devote himself to fishing and duck raising on his 2,000 Northumberland acres. He is bitterly attacked in Lloyd George's memoirs...
...bushels of exportable wheat were split the following ways...
When President Hamilton Holt of Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.) ousted Professor John Andrew Rice last spring as a too-outspoken individualist (TIME, June 19 et seq.), he split his college into two angry factions, a large pro and a small anti. Out of the Rollins rumpus last week emerged a jump college. The antis clung together, their number increased to nine (out of a faculty of 45) by dismissals and resignations after the college year ended. They looked for financial backing and a place to settle. They found both. The site is a religious conference centre complete with buildings...
...Antofagasta to enrich the Guggenheims. The atrocious destitution of the little cities of northern Chile. The cathedral at Arequipa, built of honey-colored volcanic stone, young and fresh throughout the centuries as the face of a nun. Arequipa, where beggars ride horseback. La Paz, where giant mushrooms are split with an axe, used for fuel. Lake Titicaca, world's highest, where one suffers from seasickness and mountain sickness at the same time. Lima, founded on the Epiphany and shaped like a king cake. The not quite homicidal climate of the Canal Zone...