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...wave left stranded what appeared to be countless scintillating particles of silver . . . Some appeared to be standing on their tails, swaying vibrantly back & forth. Then on beyond we made out another great school. ... For perhaps eight or ten minutes this abundant run continued and then, as though a mysterious knell had summoned them back into the depths of the sea, the fish became fewer & fewer on the sand...
...hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell...
Sledgehammers clanged the knell of Britain's airship program in the great air dock at Cardington last week. The hammers, swung by workmen of Elton. Levy & Co. Ltd., buyers of scrapmetal, fell against the frames of the airship R-100 which flew from England to Canada and back last year, and has been in her shed ever since. Following the catastrophic crash of the R-101, the R-100 fell victim to an economy program. After all the metal has been flattened by steamrollers, some of it will be made into souvenirs for sale. British lighter-than-aircraft enthusiasts...
...Last week, having completed 28 years of usefulness, Popular Magazine appeared for the last time. Street & Smith, largest producers of pulp-paper thrillers, merged (and buried) Popular Magazine with another of their 15 periodicals-Complete Stories. The end of Popular, like the end of Everybody's, rang the knell of another semi-pretentious sheet which could not compete with the innumerable sporadic, cheap magazines which frankly pander yarns about gunmen, speakeasies, dope. Popular-Complete Stories, beginning with the December issue, will be smaller than Popular, will sell for 15? instead...
Harvard Princeton McCaffrey, c.f. l.f., Reinmund McGrath, lb. 3b., Muldaur Ticknor, l.f. s.s., Knell DesRoches, 3b. lb., Morse Wood, s.s. c.f., Bessire Rex, r.f. r.f., Moles Mays, 2b. c., Eno Sheldon, c. 2b., Parker MacHale, p. p., Waud...