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Wilkins. Safely returned to Fairbanks after their fourth hop over the 560 miles of desolate northern Alaska between Fairbanks and their advanced base, Point Barrow, Captain George H. Wilkins and Pilot Ben Eielson took on a load of freight heavier than ever-4,200 Ib. of fuel and food-and soared northward again. This time their radio was silent for hours that stretched into two days. The men in Fairbanks hoped it was only a wrist Wilkins had sprained during the second round-trip that was preventing him from operating the monoplane Alaskan's wireless outfit...
...Oxford men were a shade the heavier. As they swung off from the start, aided by the Surrey-side current that Stroke Pitman had won in the toss, they drew three-quarters of a length ahead with a short, strong stroke, beating 36 to the minute against the 34 of the Cantab boat. Here was work for J. A. Brown. His beautiful steering helped bring Cambridge, rowing smoothly, almost abreast. The Oxford-heavies tried a spurt. At the mile the bows were dead even. Without hitting it up, the smooth-stroking Cantabs drew ahead, pricking Oxford to a fresh spurt...
Said he: "Bachelors are a much misunderstood class. . . . The proposal to lay a tax on bachelors [now widely bruited in England] would be opposed to all the accepted principles of taxation, which usually postulate that the more successful a man is the heavier should be his taxes. . . . To lay a tax on bachelors is thus unreasonable, for it would be a tax on failure, not on success...
...from being too much better, and in most branches of sport they are imposed more or less involuntarily. But every now and then in boxing someone thinks he is pretty good, and then what does he do but give away weight ?agree to fight somebody a good deal heavier...
...Ever and again the champion took the offensive and jostled his opponent rudely. There was a great deal of pasting interspersed between these events. Mr. Risko took his chastisement with something akin to genius, an infinite capacity for taking punishment. Mr. Berlenbach's punishment was 15 1/2 lb. heavier, but he was very brave. In the end the judges put their heads together and said to each other and to the world, that in their judgment, in such a contest the heavier...