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...conceited jackanapes, he will surely be unpopular and a discredit to the U. S. while at Oxford, and a useless citizen, talking through his nose, when he comes back. But if, on the other hand, he is intelligent and sensitive, he will find, clinging to Oxford like the thick leaves along its walls, a glory that is green in every year. He will soon walk without nervousness and without arrogance along its tonsured lawns. He will drink, perhaps, at bump suppers until he has become intoxicated. On his individual behavior as on the particular behavior of his 31 merry...
...complicated system of hidden ball plays, which were revolutionary in American football, Haughton uncovered the system which was the envy and despair of every coach in the country. Even after his coup in the 1908 encounter, it was four years before he scored over Yale, but minor victories came thick before this...
...Book should please intelligent people who hitherto have been able to find the work of George Bellows extensively displayed only in galleries. It contains a preface by Thomas Beer; is three-quarters of an inch thick, twelve inches wide, fourteen inches long...
Bremen Gaped. Above Bremen, Germany, an airplane was flying swiftly backward. Leslie Edgar Reed of the U. S. foreign service investigated, cabled the U. S. department of Commerce a description. The plane, thick-winged, carried its tail in front, preventing somersault after a bad landng...
Passenger, engines, crew of the actual ship will be stored in a 180-foot "single wing," which is three yards thick. Two motors will be held idle for emergencies. The fuselage is long and slim, chiefly a strut to hold the tail. But before the actual ship is built, the model must be well tested in a wind tunnel, i. e.-a a stout tunnel built for aviation model tests. So terrific is the suction of the propeller set at one end to furnish air currents, that a man standing in the tunnel would be swept into the whirling blades...