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There is, however, nothing mysterious to Signor Bendandi's forecasts. Some 30,000 quakes ruffle the earth yearly. Patient men have compiled world catalogs of recognized quakes, viz., R. Mallet's Catalogue of Recorded Earthquakes (1606 B.C.-A.D. 1842), J. Milne's A Catalogue of Destructive Earthquakes (A.D. 1-1899). Others have brought the records up to date. Out of the records analysts have been able to decipher two groups of periodicity in earthquakes. In one group vigorous quakes occur once a year, faint ones every day. In the other group trifling temblors occur every 21 minutes...
Rich Americans on the moors The Twelfth, or ready to go there, included as usual, John Pierpont Morgan, Clarence Hungerford Mackay & wife, Bernard Mannes Baruch, Herbert Pulitzer, Grayson Mallet, Prevost Murphy...
...last eleven years. They averaged 30 Ib. lighter, but 15 years younger than the Argentines. . In the first match, with 4,000 excited socialites craning on the sidelines, slim Ebby Gerry flashed through the Argentine defense to score seven goals. One goal he made after the head of his mallet came off, by turning the stick upside down and hitting the ball with the handle-a trick he had seen performed by Tommy Hitchcock ten years ago. His comrades made seven more. Though they rode des perately, the Argentines scored only eleven times. The winning edge was as much...
...record. So, in his petty anger, he unthinkingly insinuated that the Far East Philosopher was not moved by the altruistic impulses hitherto ascribed, but was avoiding another dud on the Holy Cross game (Dr. Huey picked Harvard to win easily last year) and, furthermore, didn't know a polo mallet from a wicker-basket. He concluded his remarks with the slur that the prophet had been out of practice, insofar as the sons of Nassau were concerned, for the past five years, and didn't know they even had a polo team...
Tonight at 9.30 o'clock the Harvard polo trio will meet the Yale mallet men in the finals of the intercollegiate indoor championship at the Squadron A armory in New York City. The Crimson team, with six handicap goals conceded to it at the start, should have an even chance of regaining the title which it dropped last year...