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...expedition, we did not get to the top of a single peak, for our sole object was to locate the mountains. Some of these peaks are the most impregnable I've ever seen, and one as yet unnamed peak, over 14,000 feet high, had one absolutely vertical cliff 6000 feet high. If they ever try to climb some of these, I hope I'm not around...
...they had more painters like him. Surf, sky and rocks are his only subjects. These he knows so well that he no longer bothers to leave his Provincetown, Mass, studio to look at them. However, all Waugh seascapes are not alike. Ante Meridian shows a wave breaking against a cliff in the right foreground. Post Meridian had waves breaking on rocks in the centre foreground. Tropic Seas had the rocks in the distance. In Morning Tide, Mrs. Logan's favorite in Chicago the rocks are on the left. Mr. Waugh took his award with becoming modesty last week. Other...
...Pease "poisons": tea, coffee, flesh meats, vinegar, all condiments, most medical drugs, vaccines and antitoxins and tobacco. Dr. Pease, who got the New York subways to ban smoking in 1909, always tells of a horse he knew who got tea mixed in its feed and jumped off a cliff. "I have had a man." he said, "a nicotine slave, writhing upon the floor of my office crying, 'Why didn't someone tell me it was harmful? Why didn't someone tell me it was harmful?' He could not break the habit and he passed...
Harvard's Varsity wrestling team, potentially as strong a squad as Cliff Gallagher has coached in his seven years at Cambridge, will open its season tomorrow afternoon at M.I.T...
...days, Frank Lloyd Wright, a Master of Modernism in his own right, called Sullivan "the Master." During Sullivan's last years the two would meet at the Cliff Dwellers Club in Chicago, talk bitterly about a world which neither found sufficiently appreciative. In 1924 Louis Henry Sullivan died in Chicago of heart disease...