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...education in the U. S. in the last 25 years, improved methods of teaching, medical education of the public, etc. At last someone asked the question : "Why are the doctors leaving the country? Where is the rural practitioner?" The discussion ambled along; listeners caught, in its labored periods, the clip-clop of slow hoofs, the rattle of a dry axle, saw, in the rutted lane of the imagination, a buggy swaying along with reins pulling slack from the hands of a threadbare, weary man who followed where his nag took him- down the lane, away from the sombre fields...
...return journey, with constant requests for compass directions, did not hinder the Los Angeles from keeping up a steady clip of 50 miles an hour or so; and, at 12:36 on Sunday morning, the great airship was back at Lakehurst...
...question was implied: Not a particle of difference. "Isn't it possible that most of us overdo the newspaper habit?" And Agent Barton adduced the example of President Roosevelt, who freed his mind of "all the pull and tug of the nonessential" by having his secretaries clip and paste up the essence of each day's news...
Because a foreigner might well mistake the football stadium for the fortress or temple of U. S. education, the editors of The New Student, intercollegiate clip-sheet, published a symposium on the stadium's significance...
Tibbetts also ran a masterly race in the two-mile, taking the lead of the long field of runners whenever he wanted it, and finally, in the last lap, uncorking a sprint which brought him around the last curve at a 440 clip and brought him to the tape 40 yards ahead of Rosenburgh, the Virginia runner, who had seemed to be pressing him earlier in the race...