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...long do you allow for a 200-mile automobile drive? Perhaps, if you are touring, you allow a day-a late start, a leisurely lunch somewhere along the road, an arrival about dusk. If, on the other hand, you happened to be one Harry Hartz of Los Angeles, you would allow 1 hour, 37 minutes, 21.25 seconds; this speed, a new world's record, he made last week at Salem...
That evening it was discovered that the percolator had been left connected too long, had run down the battery of the royal car until no current remained to light the lights.* Resigned, Her Majesty went to bed at dusk, awoke next morning as her train entered Paris, after 48 hours of travel...
...Deum.' ... In the early centuries it was through the preaching of 'Jesus Christ and Him crucified' that the church drew under His yoke the legal-minded Roman, the philosophic Greek and the untamed barbarian, teaching them to bend the knee at the sacred name of Jesus." Dusk saw the centuries-old ritual terminated by the Procession of the Blessed Sacrament...
...general this scheme is known as the "atelier", and is really the last survival of those old workshop schools where great masters of architecture, sculpture, and painting instructed their apprentices as they worked for the masters from dawn till dusk. The great monuments and works of art of past time were brought forth in such an atmosphere where master and pupil mangled in intimate personal connection of creation and criticism. For sculpture, painting, and the minor arts, the nineteenth century saw the disappearance of the old workshop but fortunately for architecture the tradition comes down to us in unbroken line...
...North or south of the Gulf of Finland? If south, please hold arms aloft; if north, cross arms." The gapers lifted their arms uncrossed. The nearest railway station was that of a village near Riga, in Latvia. That evening, 12 hours behind schedule, the Norge loomed through the dusk and was hauled into a hangar near the Gatchina Palace, outside of Leningrad. Hundreds of Soviet soldiers had to struggle in three feet of snow to get her berthed...