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Wilhelm Hohenzollern II, his wife the Princess Hermine, his son, Friedrich Wilhelm, and a party of ten, motoring between The Hague and Haarlem, Holland, discovered in a ditch, badly smashed, the car in which their servants had preceded them. The servants were unhurt. Later in the day on Kager Lake a speed launch carrying the younger members of the party, blew up, badly burned and bruised two, nearly capsized the yacht Olympia on which the senior Hohenzollerns were cruising...
Flying a 90 h. p. Gipsy-Moth which had seen considerable taxi-service in England, Miss Johnson covered more than half the 11,500-mi. route well ahead of Hinkler's schedule before mishap overtook her at Rangoon. Burma. There she mistook the landing field and taxied into a ditch. After two days lost in making repairs the girl pushed on through driving rains to Bangkok, 3,000 miles and four days from her goal. Yet perhaps the worst of the journey lay ahead of her: the perilous passage over Siam jungle and Java swamp, the 700-mi. water jump...
...jump. They were over safely, hard to see against a patch of mist that touched the corner of the course. At Valentine's Brook, Sir Lindsay, John Hay Whitney's horse, was over first, with Shaun Goilin (pronounced Shahn Goy-lin), right after him. At the open ditch, Gate Book went down and Gregalach, one of the favorites since Easter Hero was scratched, screwed sideways in the air, landed clear but had to be pulled up. He was down before the end of the first round. They had gotten around once and Shaun Goilin was in front coming...
Harry Emerson Fosdick,--"The church will fight to the last ditch any step that looks like a return to the saloon. While laws are on the books, we will stand by them...
William Bennett Munro, Ph. D., LL. D., Borrowed End from Harvard, to guide Caltech's division of the humanities, which seeks to make the students generally cultured and prevent them from graduating into ditch-digging, draughting, or plumbing. Useful to Professor Munro's students is the Henry E. Huntington. Library & Art Gallery at nearby San Marino, an-other world-important California institution founded by another rich Californian and directed by another leading U. S. educator, Max Farrand...