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Last week his younger brother, Headmaster Horace Dutton Taft of Taft School (Watertown, Conn.), a brother tall, thin and angular but full of the Taft good-humor, produced a private letter William Howard Taft had written just after Herbert Hoover's election, to Prof. Irving Fisher, Yale economist, militant dry. Headmaster Taft explained he was offering this evidence to offset all erroneous interpretations of his brother's position on Prohibition...
...most of Newfoundland, however, the hills and high tablelands are deeply carpeted with a mantle of angular frost-broken and lichen-crusted material; transported boulders are not seen, or are small and conspicuously weathered; and the cliffs have very high talus-slopes, such as that of Hannah's Head on the lower Humber. The largest area in which the surface mantle is undisturbed and the rock-walls covered with a rotted crust that has never been scraped off is on the western side of the island, embracing the Long Range of mountains and the adjacent foreland...
...some of the tablelands, to quote Coleman's words, "No signs of glaciation were seen above the edge of the escarpment at 970 feet (aneroid), and a walk of four or five miles inland over the rolling surface of the tableland reaching 1.908 feet (aneroid), showed only angular blocks of Archaean rock of local origin. No foreign boulders were found, and the conclusion was reached that the southern part of the Long Range had never been glaciated...
Freshman: Winter--January 25, K. of C.; February 8, Andover at Andover; February 15, B. A. A.; February 24, Tri-angular meet; March 1, Exeter at Exeter. Spring--April 19, Andover at Andover; May 2, 3, Greater Boston Intercollegiate; May 9, University Handicap; May 10, Interscholastic; May 17, Exeter at Exeter; May 24, Yale...
Selina Martin, 21, was a tall, angular blonde. She worked for Julies Freres, Couturiers-the brothers Raphael and Paul. Raphael, a dress designer himself, appreciated her original work, therefore advanced her salary after her mother's death left her living alone. Then one day he noticed something in her work on a dress in three shades of red-"I mean the clever child is growing up-she has ideas that are not all dreams. She is getting down to earth. I wonder...