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From a half crown sack of books in the hands of a London lurk dealer to a place of honor" in the Bunvan collection at the Widernor Library is the journey destined to be taken by a forty-four page first edition of John Bunyan's "A book for Boys and Girls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Edition of Bunyan's "A Book for Boys and Girls" Given to University by Anonymous Donor--One Other Copy Extant | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...British Columbia marks the passing of the masthead muezzins. A Victoria whaling company has chartered seaplanes to be carried on shipboard to the whaling grounds, launched overside and sent spinning over the ocean in far circles. High over the sea, air observers can "spot" a whale even though he lurk far below the surface; can flash his nautical bearings even to an invisible whaleship and keep leviathan in sight until the harpoons arrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Whale Spotting | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...hundred thousand dollars or a new gymnasium." Intellectual "safety" was defined: "He must be devoid of all purely rational principles and ideas of any sort . . . cannot be a Roman Catholic, a Quaker, a Holy Roller. . . . Above all, he should understand how to befog issues wherein ideas perhaps lurk dangerously by raising and keeping raised a perfect dust storm of issues that really do not matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvard Irked | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...recent editorial the CRIMSON suggested that there did lurk certain fanaticism in the statement issued by the Association of Professors. Though football is not America's "most healthful and wholesome exercise" it is not the primrose path to any Shakespearian hades. And certain members present at the meeting of the Association who firmly admire football in its proper place have reminded inquisitive Cantabridgians that they did not sign the report and that it was merely the tentative plan of a group there present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FALL GUY | 5/4/1926 | See Source »

...Here discretion is important. Outiside the precincts of St. Andrews, for example, lurk shaggy men offering their caddy services, pouncing on the unwary , extorting (later) avaricious prices. Go to the caddy master always. . . At St. Andrews, watch for aged caddy Hutchison, father of Jock (U. S. Open Chanmpion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golfers' Tour | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

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