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...part he reads will almost certainly give him the impression of a curious inequality in our rate of progress as a people, for he will see us forging ahead along a certain road with a zeal which is blind to obstacles, while is other directions we shall seem to crawl with unwillingness, even fear, lest we get to some unfamiliar place...
...several youths representing Japan. They far outclassed the U. S., whose men swimmers have won most of the events in previous Olympics. The first Japanese Olympic swimmers, competing at Antwerp in 1920, were peculiarly inept. They used an antiquated sidestroke and were anxious to learn how to do the crawl. Most Japanese athletes, other than swimmers, in the current Olympic Games have likewise been concerned with learning how to compete rather than winning prizes. Japanese skiers in the Winter Olympic Games last February amused Lake Placid school children by turning awkward somersaults over jumps and falling down even...
...stadium employe whose job it was to run the flags of winning countries up the highest of the three flagpoles on the stadium's peristyle was pleased by the final of the 1,500-metre race. From where he stood, watching the tiny runners crawl around the track, a bunched field thinning out on the last lap while one dark little man sprinted furiously to get in front,it was impossible to see who had won; but after the race was over, the employe received, for the first time, the signal to hoist the Italian flag...
...made Broadway famous." He has a girl (Helen Twelvetrees) but he is careless of her feelings and takes up with a richer one (Jill Esmond). Presently he writes for his colyum a description of a murder before the police have found the corpse. This causes an indignant Sicilian to crawl into his office and shoot him in the ribs. When he revives in a hospital, the colyumist is unchastened but embarrassed by his accident. Judged by his jokes and witty sayings, Ricardo Cortez is a slightly better colyumist than Douglas Fairbanks Jr., but still not very good. "Drop in some...
Some 400 million years ago a fish dug its head into the mud, began to breathe with lungs, explains Joel. Next natural development would have been for it to be able to crawl out on land, but the lungfish never got that far. The only benefit it got from its lungs was the ability to live through periods of drought. Encysted in sun-baked mud it could live on air and its own tissues for months, even for years. From the papyrus roots of Lake Victoria Joel two years prior had collected specimens of the fish, called Kamongo...