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World's Record One day last week-a fine midwinter's day in South Africa-one Authur Newton rose before dawn in Gwelo, Rhodesia, and ran till after dusk reaching Buluwayo, 100 miles away, in 14 hr., 45 min. Mr. Newton claimed a world's record which none disputed...
...Connecticut, June 20.--Late last evening the University crew went out for another four-mile spin upstream against time. In the gathering dusk that obscured many of the flags marking the course, the Crimson eight fought against a breeze blowing down the course to cover the distance in 21 minutes, 21 seconds...
...finally won a match. And William Bates, the stolid oaf: it took an insufferable poet and a water hazard to nerve him to propose. And Wallace Chesney with the purple-checked plus-fours; Gladstone Bott, wormcast carom king; storklike Bradbury Fisher; and that horde moving up the rough at dusk, the Wrecking Crew. . . . Golf has not yet begun this season on some U. S. courses but where Funnyman Wodehouse is read, play need never cease. His long irony is always "on the meat." Never out of bounds, his approaches are infallible; his quip shots all hole out. This Ecstasy...
Uses predicted; Letting dusk and dawn turn a city's lights on and off automatically; letting burglars announce their presence with their own flashlights, fires with their own glare; counting persons or automobiles passing by their shadows; stopping a train by its own searchlight or vibrations...
...standard of achievement. But the hollowness of a philosophy of life, which leads to nothing more substantial than mere progress, is already being felt with a poignancy, which even the Nirvana of Coolidgism has failed to allay. And in tracing the fading of the golden day into the gilded dusk, Lewis Mumford is voicing a discontent with the present idols, to which the pens of such widely different types of writers as Professor Babbitt, H. L. Mencken, and Sinclair Lewis have previously given form. Few critics however, have seen so penetratingly beneath the surface of the contemporary scene...