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...They took notes in a code which was nowhere written down, and preserved only in the memories of the four. They never traveled together, lest an accident wipe out their secret with them. Coded and catalogued, the facts were locked away, and the book written from them printed in utmost secrecy. Last week presses clattered, turning out pages that were scrupulously counted to make sure that none got away before publication date (Sept...
...after taking mescaline, an alkaloid derived from a Mexican cactus.* Unlike opium and other drugs, which bring on hallucinations, mescaline seems to leave the power of critical observation intact. And what the subject sees, says Dr. Smythies after comparing notes with his friends, are visions of "the utmost poetical integrity...
...this day) was in a line of wild American land speculation that did not end with Addison Mizner at Boca Raton. Washington gambled at war: with his neck, when he took up arms against the king, and with his army, in bold flashes that interrupted months of the utmost military caution. Despite, or perhaps because of Washington's conservative reverence for God, church and tradition, he turned against the king in whose army he had served, became the driving force in the greatest change of his day, and the true parent of a nation that has changed and changed...
...well in collegiate circles, setting a record for the mile, in 4:06.3, a fortnight ago. But there was no real competition for him. no one to test his utmost. In the Compton (Calif.) Invitation Meet last week, Santee got the competition he needed: Belgium's Gaston Reiff, holder of world records at two miles, 2,000 and 3,000 meters, and Finland's Denis Johansson, his country's national titleholder, who has outrun some of Paavo Nurmi's records...
Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God . . . [and] maintain in the United Kingdom the Protestant reformed religion? . . . All this I promise...