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...Stout brought out of his sleeve a plane "that the public wants to buy"-a small two-seater monoplane distinctly and purposely suggestive of the famed old "Model T" Ford automobile. He named it the "Sky Car," admitting (hoping) that "the public, in its usual fashion, is likely ... to dub it something less formal." The Sky Car is a low-slung, truncated cabin suspended beneath a cantilever wing, with a tail assembly mounted at the end of an outrigger framework. The engine is a 75-h. p. pusher, with the propeller whirling between the members of the outrigger. The ship...
...appears as a dangerous extension of the game. But its principle is the same as that of fall rowing, fall baseball, or fall track. Whether its work is light or heavy, it is at best only a conditioning process. But its chief justification is the chance it affords the dub to play with the University squad under University coaches. The numbers of men who report for spring practice, and who develop often into players of ability bear testimony to the value of the informal conduct of a sport apart from the hurry and hysteria of its regular season...
...hold an honorary degree of F.F.D. from the Electoral College--Doctor of Fenomenal Forecasting. So mine is the last word on presidential problems. At this point an impertinent CRIMSON editor has accused me of bluffing. He insinuates that though I know all about football I am the veriest dub on matters presidential. So I'll give you the inside dope on New England--just to show this fellow. Cut this out and paste it on your mirror. The morning after election you can wire me your congratulations (prepaid, please...
...very glad I chose Harvard, Princeton was offered, but upon inquiring I was told that it bore more resemblance to a country dub than a university and that Harvard was the most cosmopolitan of your American colleges...
Though the stingy businessman's name was concealed, last week, it is natural for German reporters to dub him "Polish," just as Paris and London dailies hang their best anonymous stories on "an American," often when some prankish Argentine or tippling Russian is to blame...