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Near Berlin last week newsmen stood behind protecting steel walls, stoppered their ears and watched a small cannon-like device vomit gases with a nerve-shattering roar. Two minutes of the din was all they could endure. The "cannon," mounted on an engine block, was Inventor Paul Heylandt's latest rocket motor propelled by burning of liquid oxygen and an alcoholic liquid. It was only two feet long, weighed 15 Ib. Installed in a hermetically sealed cabin airplane for stratospheric flight, the inventor said, it would propel the craft from Berlin to any point in Europe...
...Evening chimes have not been unknown to us and so we pardonably believed we knew of the slow and gracious beauty of bells rung for the beauty of their ringing. Our experience, we find, was limited. We are now to hear bells we have never heard before, and their din of Slavic tunes from a staid Georgian tower is to set at nought our thought of chimes to delight or console. Yes, we were mistaken, doubtless. (Name withheld by request...
While Aeropostale's troubles were basically commercial, there were political embarrassments to aggravate them. In the Chamber's subsidy debates much was made of the revelation that Pierre Etienne Flandin, Minister of Finance, had been and was believed still to be counsel for Aeropostale. No one questioned M. Flan-din's honor; but with the Chamber already embattled, the fact of his association made Aeropostale an admirable target for the opponents of Premier Laval. One of the accusations was that Flandin was "trying to maneuver" the Government into taking financial responsibility for Aeropostale. Finally the Government voted to participate...
...entering will have his name placed on the invitation-list of the most exclusive metropolitan hostesses. He will thus be assured of opportunity of meeting the season's débutantes, and he will be expected to extract from them and their parents invitations to the significant din ners, theatre-parties, dances and house-parties of the season. Students meeting these requirements will be given credit for mastery in the Science of Society. ... In ... economics . . . the texts used are the daily reports of the Stock Exchange and the Curb Market, the Wall . Street Journal and Bradstreet. ... In athletics . . . squash...
...eternal appeal does not lie with these adventures of the body alone. Kipling and Keyserling have done as well with India. It is when Yeats-Brown travels off the beaten-path of the senses that Kim and Gunga Din pale into insignificance. Strange stories have come out of the East for years; the cobra-enchanter, the sacred animals and the mystical rites along the Ganges, the horrible parade of the Juggernaut in the Temple Square. The Bengal Lancer wondered about these. And wondering, he took to the path of the great Yogi, he sat at the feet of the guru...