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...owner had not seen fit to nominate him for the Preakness (for which nominations closed a month ago) and since Stagehand was not in condition to run, Dauber was a 3-to-2 favorite-chiefly because of his magnificent stretch run in the Kentucky Derby. Through the rain and mist, 25,000 dripping spectators watched Dauber start unostentatiously, as a well-mannered Whitney colt would be expected to do. But going into the backstretch, Dauber began to make a spectacle of himself-not in front, but trailing behind (in next to last place in the field of nine), ten lengths...
...days to nine. This means that any Sunday or Thursday during the year a traveler may climb into an Empire flying boat at Southampton, swish a mile over its land locked harbor, take off for the outposts of British rule. If the traveler, raincoated against England's chilly mist, has his luggage marked "Australia," he will slip between the Alps in the afternoon, dine in Rome, sleep that night in dusty Athens. Next day he will cross the eastern Mediterranean, sweep over Mesopotamia, go to bed in Basra, Irak. Third and fourth nights are spent...
...sections, left to cool. If it is to go into more specialized uses, such as automobile fenders, its processing has barely begun. Shooting down the roller table at 24 m.p.h., it plunges into a slot, is caught by a set of rollers in a circle and, in a red mist it coils itself into a spool, is deposited on a moving belt ready for "pickling." This is the trade's name for a brief bath in acid to wash off all scale before the sheet steel is cold-rolled under more huge "stands'' to give it proper...
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...them. As he cycled at a merry speed round his Devonshire See, his whiskers and Episcopal apron flapped in the wind and anyone could tell a mile off who was coming. Because of his thick whiskers which hid a very jolly face, his clergy nicknamed him "Love in a mist...