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...investment wave, driven by Japan's wealth and the power of the yen, has pushed real estate values beyond the reach of many Australian investors and has put Japanese companies in control of 18 major hotels and resorts. EIE Takahashi, which paid $110 million to acquire Sydney's Regent Hotel, has Australian investments valued at $400 million. Daikyo has poured $560 million into Australian property, including the Gold Coast International Hotel and the Brisbane Hilton...
...Aubrey's attention-for "these curiosities," he said, "would be quite forgotten, did not such idle fellows as me putt them downe." From old Dr. William Harvey, who had discovered the circulation of the blood, Aubrey got eyewitness accounts of Sir Francis Bacon, whose eye was "like the eie of a viper." Izaak Walton regaled him with anecdotes about the young bricklayer named Ben Jonson who went to Cambridge and died court poet; from an ancient servant he heard of the historic day when Sir Walter Raleigh, fresh from the New World, threw the ladies into fits by puffing...
Although Nils Eie of Oslo, Norway, took first in jumping with 36.76 points, Dartmouth captured team honors in that event to keep a clean slate. Because of the exceptionally fast surface on the runway, the jumpers took off from a rope stretched across the chute 50 feet below the platform, and jumps were consequently shorter than if the full length of the take-off had been utilized...
...Last week Arizona performed eie of its habitual acts; elected George Wylie Paul Hunt, Democrat, to the Governorship for the sixth time. His majority was slim. Only one other man, (Thomas E. Campbell) has ever been Governor of Arizona since it became a state in 1912. Question: Wherefore the long-lasting potency of Governor Hunt? Perhaps it is because he was as strong as an ox and is as bald as a turtle; more likely it is because he has grown with Arizona and shaped it. In 1881 he arrived in Globe, Ariz., at the age of 21, penniless, professionless...
...worde of Master P. rested by ye pond. Master P. anon admonished ye men of Yayle and ye worde was againe spoken. Alass for ye youthes, ye stronge men sallied and alsoe struck ye Master despitefully. Atte ys ye widowe Hariss sette loose ye greate mastife with ye one eie, and ye playe ceased as ye dinner belle range. Ye game was spoken by Master Pinkeytighte as ye game of ye faire Harvarde youthes. Ye central rusherman of Yayle was hurt most pitously...
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