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...radius of Lake Placid. The four Stevens brothers manage a Lake Placid hotel which they inherited from their father. They win so many bob-sled races-last fortnight they took all the events in the national A. A. U. champion-ships-that impartial observers might easily infer that New York State's $250,000 served chiefly to entertain the hill-sliding Stevens brothers. But sliding down a hill is less a vocation for the Stevens family than a recreation from more vigorous exertions. J. Hubert Stevens is an expert aviator, golfer, outboard motorboat racer. Curtis is good at golf...
...earliest romanticists, the Christian and humanist traditions. Untraditional as we believe ourselves today, we are as confused as any men of a century ago. We are the victims of a "jazzy impressionism;" "still", he admits, "our naturalistic deliquescence has probably not gone so far as one might infer from poetry like that of Mr. Sandburg or fiction like that of Mr. Dos Passos." When one reads the ponderous latinities into which Professor Babbitt occasionally slips we are inevitably reminded of Dr. Johnson; the similarity is greater still when one considers the dogma of the humanist, and the moral links between...
...simultaneously, and that their age is too short for any appreciable evolution having taken place. Finally, the observed recession of spiral nebulae, reflecting the phenomenon of the expanding universe, indicates a possible age of the extragalactic universe of a few thousand million years only. From all these facts we infer that probably the age of our universe does not differ very much from the age of the solar system, and that not very much more than 3000 million years have elapsed since the spiral nebulae, the stars, and the star-dust (the meteors) were born out of the original parent...
...what he would do when he came into power--"There shall be in England seven half-penny leaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it a felony to drink small beer." Perhaps some of our elder statesmen would infer, in their haste, that Jack was a prohibitionist, either by politics or conviction, but other possible constructions can be put upon the passage. That he was a through-going Democrat, however--an out-and-out son of the wild jackass--is clearly suggested by his boast, which we slightly paraphrase...
...Harry Marsh Warren, has itemized the precise day and hour most often chosen for voluntary death. It is 11:00 a.m., Tuesday. It took long investigations by the Save-a-Life League, which Dr. Warren founded in 1906 and since has headed, to determine this hour and to infer a reason for its choice. Said Dr. Warren last week, after a League meeting: "People see want ads on Sunday; look for the jobs and fail to get them on Monday; and on Tuesday decide...