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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Webb, Sidney, erudite Secretary of State for the colonies and dominions. Long nosed, with pince-nez glasses and a pointed chin beard, Sidney Vebb is a noted author, one of Britain's greatest political economists. In these works his partner is his no-less intellectual wife, Beatrice Potter Webb...
People began to bet instead on Mr Jinks, a grey horse named by Ireland's President Cosgrave, with ancestry dating to 1774 and in whose long lineage there always has been a grey dam or a grey sire. On the morning of the Derby there were three favorites: Cragadour, Mr Jinks, and Lord Derby's Hunter's Moon. A few people bet on a horse called Walter Gay, receiving 100 to 8 odds. They were later proved wise because Walter Gay came in second. In Belfast, Ireland was circulated a message which nobody could trace to its source: "Trigo will...
...airdrome in Wichita, Kan., skeptics once doubted that he had really snared ducks flying at 100 m. p. h. 50 to 100 ft. above the ground. To an airplane he tastened a 50-ft. cord, a 1-ft. string, an old black sock, 18 in. long, 4 in. in diameter. The plane then swooped in an arc 100 ft. above him, the sock streaking out behind it. With a 5½-ft. bait-casting rod and a line with a nine-hook plug, he hooked the sock and jerked it from the string on three out of five tries...
...same vein. New York University wishes a public health centre, to emulate Columbia University with its new (Harkness-bolstered) medical centre. And to Mr. Baker the faculty turned. Picking him was shrewd, for the professor of surgery at Bellevue Hospital, one of the units of the proposed centre, has long been Dr. George David Stewart. And Dr. Stewart has almost as long been Mr. Baker's doctor and friend. Hence sentiment made the ready Baker hand more ready, and a little insistent. The $1,000,000 was, he stipulated, to be an endowment and the endowment must be called...
...little or no crepuscular glow. The sun ''rises" abruptly, deep black shadows retreating sharply before it. In the Arnott film, shown last week by Princeton Professor John Stewart, the silver edge of a lunar morning creeps up the steep walls of the volcano, two miles high. Long shadows of the craggy rim are cast across the crater floor within, slowly shortening until...