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...nondescript houses, even three-decker wooden tenements, eating at one-armed lunches, seeking only little sets of personal acquaintances, often very narrow ones, and tutors except professionally or at a starched reception. Such were the conditions which prompted Professor George Pierce Baker to observe with praiseworthy candor one Easter recess, when a party of us were joiting up to Chocorua in the most accomodating of all accommodation trains: "Parents suppose when they send their boys to Harvard that they are sending them to college. What they are really doing is sending them out into the world." The chill isolation...
...white shirt and linen knickers unsoiled. Capt. Hawks stood grinning in the cockpit, gnawed a sandwich, gulped coffee and water before responding to the welcoming committee. He disclaimed all concern in breaking the old record of 14 hr. 45 min., set by the Lindberghs on Easter Sunday. Said he: "I am not interested in records. It was purely a business demonstration of the possibilities of an aerial pony express. With relays of pilots and fast planes at intermediate points ... I think a schedule of 13 to 15 hrs. could be maintained. . . . The nonstop flight is of no value. Why load...
...months ago by Lieut.-Colonel Roscoe Turner. Average flying time was 179 m.p.h., sometimes as high as 240. Pilot Hawks complained of headwinds over most of the course, varying between 20 and 30 m.p.h. He prepared to attack the west-east record of 14 hr. 45 min. set last Easter by Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh with Mrs. Lindbergh...
...somewhat before 9 a. m. the 50th day (pentecost means 50th day) after Easter. The Jews had celebrated their Pentecost the sennight before, to commemorate Moses' giving their ancestors the Ten Commandments 50 days after the Exodus from Egypt. Peter and the other eleven Apostles, including newly elected Matthias,* were communing in the upstairs room of a Jerusalem house. Then and thus The Acts...
...last week, but President Roy had evidently plugged his ears to the voice of Tradition. It is not an old Wall Street custom to be lavish even with coppers; the U. S. Presidents' only observance of a custom in any way analogous is to roll hard-boiled Easter Eggs on the White House lawn for children to take home...