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...athletes have always shown on the field a remarkable amount of team spirit. But the idea that spectators can win games by the intensity of their gaze and the power of their lungs is not exalted at Harvard, firstly, because such pressure does not seem an especially admirable test of inward spirit, and secondly, because the idea that games can be so won is ninetenths a fallacy. Boston Transcript...
...Last week in Paris Paul Roger of the Pathe group was planning the synchronization of Valentino's Blood and Sand, as a test for making dead stars talk, with a Valentino mimic capable of gauging and timing the dialog accurately...
...millions of dollars, racketeering, and the worst corruption of public office in the history of the United States, have all been heaped helter-skelter in the crucible of the experimenters, with a new code of lawlessness and immorality as the only product, "the time has come" for a true test of the continuance or disappearance of the eighteenth amendment. The November elections are the battleground...
Would Russia obey this order? Could two private citizens successfully command a Great Power? How did they ever get to thinking that they could? Was this to be the historic test case on the outcome of which businessmen throughout the world may base their opinion of the Soviet State's good or bad faith...
...racing wind. Yankee, racing Whirlwind, made better time than Enterprise that day, and was matched with Enterprise to see how the two would come out in moderate conditions. But bad weather-this time a calm-spoiled the race as it had spoiled five out of seven attempted tests. Enterprise was ahead when this last test was called off. "We feel," said Secretary Cormack of the Cup committee, "that she is the most dependable boat in all kinds of weather." Next day Enterprise flew all her flags in celebration. Skipper Vanderbilt went ashore, played a few sets of tennis but came...