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...shortly after noon. Light through the girders and from many searchlights fall on a comparatively diminutive fabric of duralumin lying at one end of the dock. The duralumin section is 50 ft. long, 10 ft. high, and just one arc of the 133-ft. diameter ring which is to be the "keel" of the airship. A rope on standards marks off the round of the ring-to-be. Within the circumference are 400 dignitaries, official guests, each with a 3-in. disk of duraluminum, memento of the "ZRS-4 Ring-Laying...
...tendency so much in evidence now towards evening gridiron frolics under the illumination of powerful arc lights is introducing an element into college football which may well prove alarming to those of the football-going public who consider the contest one of the smaller elements of the football day, or rather holiday. The question as to whether the football player or the serious onlooker will be disappointed will fortunately not be raised at Harvard for some time to come; for what arc lights there are have been virtually relegated to the limbo of superannuation from which they are not likely...
Sirs: "Soup" editorial* was nearly as fine as the soup; for the soup is perfect, but the editorial is faulty. You describe the farmers, "swinging their sweaty horses in an arc." Time was that such a thing was true, but Jersey farmers, growing the wonderful "J.T.D." tomatoes, "bigger and better" every year, have mostly discarded horses. Where, years ago, wagon loads of 80 to 100 baskets, stretched for two miles, and slowly wended their way toward the receiving platform, now motor trucks with loads of 200 to 600 baskets occupy that length of street and "zip" to the platform, unload...
...Dunois, Bastard of Orleans, defeated the English, and with the aid of Joan of Arc saved France for King Charles VII. Last week Princess Charlotte, illegitimate and adopted daughter of the Prince of Monaco, rose from her sickbed at Nice and saved Monaco for Prince Louis...
...puzzled spectator might have asked, "Are Victrolas made out of tomatoes?" Not so the laboratory workers?the tomato procession comes every year and they pay no attention. Each farmer in the crowded thoroughfare, swings his sweating horses in an arc, drives his fruity load to the receiving platform of the Campbell Soup Co. across the way from the Victor plant...