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Since that far-off day when "Willie" Hearst came to Manhattan his record has been one of astounding success in the field of publishing. He controls at least 25 newspapers, eight magazines, two press syndicates and film newsreels. His papers sell to over 3,000,000 people daily?or nearly 10% of the nation's total population...
...years. They value the assistance of the tutors more and more as they advance from the Sophomore to the Senior year. This is partly, of course, as a source of counsel and ghostly strength as the general examinations approach. To the Sophomore, these examinations seem merely one far-off, diabolical event; to the Senior, they seem imminent and awful. All students take their work with their tutors more and more seriously, but it would be a great mistake, as has been intimated, to suppose that the only, or chief, function of the tutor is merly to prepare for these examinations...
Through continuous winter nights, with the mercury often at 70° below Zero, Captain Oscar Wisting* and his men kept up their scientific journals (soundings, air currents), shot vagrant polar bears that came near and even aboard, published a newspaper, tuned their radio to far-off stations, resolutely fought off solitude...
England. This England, of which he had heard so much, was certainly a queer place. All the buildings were square and pointed and dirty. All the people were sahibs and mem-sahibs, but somehow quite different from those in far-off India. None of them wore those spotless white clothes which they wore in the land of Ind. More strange, many seemed very poor, and none of them seemed to have any servants following them. The men that he mixed with at the university and at the Inns of Court eyed him strangely. When he spoke to them, which...
...Wellington, capital of far-off New Zealand, Death came to William Ferguson Massey, for close on 13 years Prime Minister. He was a laughing man-one of the most genial that ever entered the public life of that Dominion. Mr. Massey was born at Limavady, County Derry, Ireland, 69 years ago; and at the age of 14 went to rejoin his parents in New Zealand, where they had moved eight years before. The embryo statesman became a farmer and, more to the point, a prosperous farmer. He entered Parliament in 1894, the next year becoming Chief Opposition Whip, a position...