Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adapted-ketch Vamarie, known to yachtsmen as "often a bridesmaid but never a bride," because she so frequently crosses the finish line first only to lose the race because of her small allowance handicap. Last week's finish proved no exception. First over the horizon at St. David's Head, Vamarie crossed the line four minutes ahead of the schooner Brilliant. When the race was over, however, neither had won, for brand new Kirawan, finishing third, beat them both by her 13-hr. time allowance. Time of the winner was 4 days, 20 hr., very slow because...
...Angell farm lies at the bottom of Providence's reservoir, the citizens to this day drink water filtered through his ancestors' bones. But the Harvard Alumni Review made no mistake in its simile. Like a breeze, Angell had in his 53 years moved freely far & wide. His horizon had always been broader than the campus at Burlington, Ann Arbor or Chicago. It has consistently remained broader than the campus at New Haven...
...bound for the West Indies where Osborne intended to sell her before seeking adventure in the U. S. Other rumors: Girl Pat was searching for buried pirate treasure; she had become a love nest, and feminine laughter rippled through the portholes. Last week as Girl Pat vanished over the horizon an amateur radio operator claimed he picked up the following message: "On board Girl Pat, somewhere on the Atlantic. We are honest and peaceful men, and now we are free...
...tell us. The heat of battle is not the only way in which a man is tempered and defined to all voters; what the voter will learn, through clever propaganda, of a candidate's birthplace, size of family, and personal eccentricities will make him bulk larger on the political horizon...
DAYS OF WRATH - André Malraux - Random House ($1.75). New authors, like clouds no bigger than a man's hand, appear frequently on the literary horizon, and never lack for meteorologists to predict their growth into the greatest storm yet seen. André Malraux is such a cloud. Before he swam into U. S. ken, transatlantic reports from his native France indicated that his thunder & lightning had awed many a seasoned observer there, and that the hailstones he had begun to pour down were of a majestic size and aspect unparalleled. When his Man's Fate (TIME, June...