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...star flashed across the track firmament last night when A. L. Watkins '31 won, fourth place in the 40 yard dash in the Millrose track meet last night at New York. The University relay team won second place in the intercollegiate relay between Maryland University, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania...
...less brilliant star than Lilias, later married Terrence Down. When Lilias came to Paris after the War, Terrence was not blind to her bright beauty; but when she no longer dazzled his gaze, he returned to his wife, leaving Lilias to pursue her wayward course through a firmament of masculine sparks and fires. Miss Hoyt's writing has the shine together with the unaccountability of planetary motion. Gayly arranging the paths of her spheres, she, like another metaphorical Manipulator of Constellations, makes no explanations. She rules out reasons and motives; indicates that her little galaxy is, like a display...
...human race is by no means young. ... It is the inheritor of a very wide experience. It has located a great many fixed stars in the firmament of truth...
...book* by romantic, poetic, enthusiastic, sparkling, dauntless, bubbling, impetuous, adventurous, dramatic, enthralling, etc. Playboy Richard Halliburton begins with a "Crash! The lightning in a rage split the writhing firmament from Thessaly to the Cyclades in one blazing, blinding glare. Streaks of fire burst into the inky darkness, inflaming the abyss about me and lashing at the clouds that hurtled past...
Dartmouth and Williams followed Yale as the most popular men's college after Princeton. Yale polled 365 votes and Dartmouth came second with 34. Norma Shearer won a close race from Greta Garbo as the most popular feminine star in the film firmament. Adolph Menjou's margin of popularity over Dougias Fanbanks was 101 to 50 however...