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...late autumn when North Atlantic seals seek warmer waters, a few usually find their way into Long Island Sound and bask there until spring comes. Some even frequent New York Harbor, dodging ferryboats and lying at the edge of Bedloe's Island, barking mischievously at the Statue of Liberty. Few residents of Long Island and Connecticut have ever seen a wild seal, but there are men who welcome a mild winter as an opportunity for the joyous, carefree sport of Sound sealing...
This is a tenable thesis which doubt less affords some comfort to the holder, but it hardly fosters the germs of a cultural or intellectual advance. To bask in the glory of Emerson, it in not necessary to negate the value of Sand-burg. A poet in a cultural index; he is emblematic of the age in which he lives. As such he should not be removed to make way for those who have gone before; rather he should be studied to explain those who come after. The genius of the moderns may be questioned, but it is impossible...
...clothes, thereby absorbing the health-giving rays of Old Sol, or he wants to listen to a lecture every hour of the day. He cannot do both, hence .... And the only possible solutions he can think of would create philosophical or ethical fallacies. Political thought brings to mind arbitration Bask in the sun for an hour, then go to a lecture for an hour and so on. This presents no difficulties. Anywhere, probably the lecturers are suffering from the vacation...
...quoted were undoubtedly Roman Catholics. At Lambeth Palace, residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Anglican ecclesiastics contented themselves with stating that the Primate of All England has been suffering for months with neuralgia. The fact that Dr. Lang's great & good friend Banker Morgan has invited him to bask upon the Corsair and cruise to Palestine they called "most opportune from the health point of view...
...bayonet, has devised a new method for capturing the giant anaconda boa constrictor. These monsters live in swamp pools which the natives skim and will not talk about except to mutter, "sucuri," their name for the anaconda. In the cold, dry season, anacondas sometimes slip out of pools to bask in the sun. Hunter Siemel's plan is to get between his snake and the water, put it on the defensive. Other men will surround it on the land side. Each man will be equipped with a long pole with a rawhide loop at the end, like...