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...social register of politics," whose one criterion is vote-getting. Indced, Dr. Seward's exodus from the preliminaries is a portent of the outcome. His adherents in New York are slipping over toward the wet side of the deek. The Prohibition party, as an institution, has already sunk, below the voting strength legally, necessary to maintain itself a political entity. Already, the Democratic party has hinted at an ardent wet, Governor Ritohic of Maryland, as its 1928 candidate for President. And on their side the Republican drys of New York show signs of fatigue...
...test shafts to determine the nature of the soil have been sunk on the Oxford Street property which has been designated as a projected site for the new chemistry laboratory. The first shaft was driven to a depth of 23 feet and for two-thirds of the distance, a stratum of heavy gravel was encountered, admirably suited for a foundation. During the last seven feet, water was struck in a layer of very fine sand and a pump was necessary to keep the shaft...
What the half element in American life does not affect, those with a "sense of humor" accomplish. Indeed, if all of the people in this country, instead of intelligence tests, were given humor tests, and the successful sunk in the western ocean, Gertrude Ederle could walk to Honolulu and Italy colonize in the Middle West. That great fault in the genus Americans, an over developed sense of humor plue that blessing of a youthful nation, credulity--those two factors are enough to march a dictator's army up the steps of the White House and make the presidential silence...
...British submarine H-29, tilted suddenly and inexplicably at her dock in Devonport Basin last week, sank within a minute and a half. Some men leaped to the wharf, some into the water; none died. Four other British submarines have sunk since...
...been capable of instruction," said the New York Evening Post at the time of his death," he would have been the greatest landscape artist of any period or people." The pictures that he painted with such stormy concentration were usually as tranquil as twilight. Brown cows sunk in August meadows, fly-twitching, drowsily browsing; sheep streaming, grey blurs, cloud-patterned, home over a hill to a fold of peaceful and fleecy sleep; valleys folded in mist, green V's in the breast-hollow of a hill-range, ponds lying like shields at sunset, fishing boats blown out of shimmer...