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...average-in 82 rounds of competition-was 71.62 strokes per round (better than even fours, which is considered perfect golf), that his average finishing position was fourth, that he had won more prize money ($14,138) than any of his competitors. Although an average of fourth place might not impress racing addicts, it is comparable to the records of War Admiral or Seabiscuit, since golfers go to the post against a field of 100 to 1,000 opponents...
...Bolshevik seizure of power. Like the earlier volumes, The Specter is crowded with philosophic and political speculations, with scenes of suicides and bitter intellectual quarrels, with an oppressive boredom, which is the one sensation Clim Samghim feels strongly. Although The Specter is not likely to impress U. S. readers as a novel, the massive work of which it is part may well stand as a record of Russian intellectual life, for if Clim Samghim lacks reality as a human being, he responds like a barometer to changing pressures in stormy Russian politics...
...editors of Punch, meanwhile, came out with what was intended to be a side-splitting full-page article calculated to impress the English mind with a notion that Czechoslovakia is a funny name, that even the fate of Czechoslovakia is not far from an affair for English mirth, and that as for an Englishman taking up arms to fight for Czechoslovakia-well that, implies Punch, is a simply hilarious idea...
...unable to live. The economic distress was correspondingly dreadful and the people's mortality figure rose in the most fearful manner. In Vienna alone last year out of 100,000 births there were 20,000 fatalities.† I don't say this because I believe I could impress the self-righteous citizens of the world, for I know they are completely without feeling toward such affairs...
When the ingenious Chinese people do not have enough airplanes, or wish to impress the Japanese by seeming to have more than they possess, they build extra planes of reed and matting construction (see cut). These-parked appetizingly in view-have drawn many a Japanese bomb away from real Chinese planes hidden elsewhere...