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...world's record. Expertly thrashing mincing waves, four young men spurted through the water one after the ather like successive finger snaps md established a new U. S. record for the half mile relay, hewing rff a full 16 4/5 sec. from the >ld mark of a little over ten minutes, at Philadelphia last week. They were Johnny Weismuller, P. McGillivray, Albert Schwartz, Arne Borg, all of different nationalities, all swimming for Illinois...
...four words are to be found in Webster's New International Dictionary. "Stramash," meaning "disturbance, ruction, broil," was applied to chronic political contentions in France. "Jimp," which has five meanings, among them (adjectively) "neat, spruce, trim," was applied to the leg of the original of Mark Twain's "Becky Thatcher." "Musnud" is the pillow or cushioned seat sat upon by an oriental potentate; was employed by TIME,-somewhat pedantically- to a university or seat-of-learning. "Kudos," of Greek derivation, means "praise, glory," was used in reference to honorary college degrees.-ED. Hibbard Flayed...
...mission. . . . That is not quite the way the story ends, nor would it be fair to say more. Slapstick though it is, the conclusion of this book is one of the most surprising, ingenious and broadly humorous twists ever put to a tale by any one short of Mark Twain...
Recent notice to William Vincent Griffin of Peapack, N. J., and Manhattan that the Pope had made him a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory was but another mark of esteem to a man who, just turned 40, has been able to establish his real estate and industrial enterprises so well that he can now give considerable time to Catholic community welfare (Postgraduate Hospital, Calvert Associates, others...
Suddenly negotiations stopped. Many reasons were rumored, the most popular being I. M. M. wished to mark time until certain of buying U. S. Shipping Board vessels at "reasonable" prices. (The Leviathan may be bought for $10,000,000, all the others for $27,000,000-TIME, July 19). United American Line. Averrell Harriman closed the sale of his Resolute, Reliance and Cleveland to the Wilhelm Cuno's Hamburg-American Line last week. He wished to sell last spring (TIME, Mar. 15). The boats have been too expensive to operate; have brought a good price (over...