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...centuries of bull-headed progress. There is every possibility-almost a probability-of English defeat. At the best, Britain can expect destruction of all her industrial concentrations and the loss of the tremendous store of invested wealth which she has been amassing ever since Drake brought home the Golden Hind. At the worst she can expect extreme political and economic humiliation. Peace is wisest...
...year, which were more useful to the fire department than his personal services. Said he: "When I was young and in my prime I was filled with civic pride. I joined the hook and ladder and they gave me the privilege of driving the hind legs." Back in the U. S. after almost three years of voluntary exile in London was William Tatem ("Big Bill") Tilden II, fresh from tennis triumphs over Henri Cochet and Donald Budge, at 47 planning to play professional tennis here again...
...Thoroughbred stallions and rugged Cannuck mares, was developed to answer the late-18th Century demand for a "fast-walking" horse to pull the rich man's buggy. A pacer moves both right legs and both left legs in unison. A trotter moves its right front leg and left hind leg in unison. Of the 10,000 Standardbred racers on U. S. tracks, 70% are trotters, 30% pacers...
...Lashing across the swamp was a dinosaur. It was 35 feet long, a yellowish color, with scales laid on like armor plate, a bony-flanged head, and snappin-turtle beak. Half blinded by cold sweat, Charles Miller pressed the release on his camera.* The dinosaur reared up on its hind legs, its small forelegs dangling, hissed roaringly, shot its snaky neck in his direction and slithered out of sight. Concluding that his rifle would be "about as useful as citronella," Explorer Miller fled...
...apiece on the next two. He dashed off Mosquitoes, was halfway through his third novel, Sartoris, when something happened. He was writing about his own country when suddenly "I discovered that writing was a mighty fine thing," he says; it enabled you "to make men stand on their hind legs and cast a shadow." Sartoris was rejected...