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Back on his lookout, Vag lifted his eyes above the forest to the sky-line of distant peaks, in the high back--country. Here was the grandest sight of all. Against a violet, cloudless sky they reared in mighty heaps--some smooth and rolling, others leaping up in jagged swoops to abrupt pin-points. Their naked reds and greys were broken by blue-white patches of glaciers, slowly slipping down their inaccessible ravines. Vag could imagine the icy wind currents which ever-lastingly moaned along down these ravines...
...called "One Hundred Years of Transatlantic Steam Navigation." By models and murals visitors were shown a century's changes from wood to iron and steel; from paddle wheel to screw, to multiple screws. Last paddle wheeler left the Atlantic in 1874, the first turbine arrived 20 years later. "Grandest failure" was the 18,914-ton Great Eastern, a five-funnel combined paddle and screw steamship, 680 feet long, built in 1858. Most vessels then carried about 400 passengers. The Great Eastern accommodated 4,000- 1,800 more than today's Queen Mary. Forty years ahead of her times...
...stage show, featuring the fifty-nine-year-old Bill Robinson, grandest tap-dancer of them all, is worth...
...Late this afternoon will tell the story. Again in 1937 as in every year when the charges of Leeman and Carr have clashed on the soccer field, two evenly matched teams meet to fight out a game which in its spirit and drive has become one of the grandest classes in the rivalry...
...Fosdick. as he was affectionately called by his "boys and girls" was one of the grandest men I have ever known. He left the firm imprint of his character on all who were privileged to come under his influence, and no matter to what heights his sons may rise, they will have difficulty in surpassing their father...