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...Tour de France last year and care very much who wins this year. And many a French sport lover in the provinces may see the Tour de France cyclists without undue effort because the race, starting and ending in Paris, is a four-week 2,600-mile, clockwise grind around the mountains and seacoasts that fringe the country. One day last week 60 grim-faced entrants, jockey caps pulled low and rumps raised high, whizzed north down the slopes of Montmartre, bound for Lille, end of the first day's 162-mile run in France's sport-event...
...compositions are good, or mark a new phase in musical progress, they will be honorably mentioned in histories of music-which nobody will read! But if they are of no value the most enthusiastic eulogists will not be able to keep them alive. The paper mills may grind them into pulp. ... I shall not shed tears over them...
...whole, although the returns of the poll must be interpreted with extreme care, the fact that college students in general have no immediate are to grind which might otherwise impart a bias to their innermost convictions should make it more than usually trustworthy. In any case the poll will indicate conclusively whether or not Harvard's traditionally conservative student body leans to the left or right, since, broadly speaking, this is the only issue which can be satisfactorily settled considering the broad scope of the more pertinent of the two questions...
...anchor-leg duel in the sprint medley between Indiana's Charles ("Chuck") Hornbostel and Princeton's William ("Bonny") Bonthron. Hornbostel's team mates gave him an advantage of 4 yd. at the start, but the spectacled Hoosier runner, who looks more like some obscure grind in a chemistry department than a track captain, did not need it. At the finish. Bonthron 6 yd. behind. Next day Indiana also won the one-and two-mile race, tied with Cornell, winner in the ½-mi., shuttle hurdles and 440-yd. events, for first-place college honors...
...soothsayers laying down the law, but rarely have their tables of stone weathered the drizzle of a single generation. Of the modestly minor interpreters of the modern U. S., Lewis Mumford has one of the most respectful followings. No Jeremiah, no hard-shell Marxian, with no patent axe to grind, he goes at the complex mass of modern civilization with all five senses. Technics and Civilization, scholarly, ambitious, big (495 pp.), does not attempt to be a Bible for any creed, but it may well prove to be a milestone in the circuitous study of the Machine...