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...Exeter's captain, A. H. O'Neil, by one-fifth of a second to 58 4-5 seconds. C. E. Borah of Andover proved himself able to cover 100 and 220 yards as fast as almost any other schoolboy in the country. Despite a wet track and a fine mist blowing in from the east, Borah found little difficulty in running two trial heats and then winning the shorter dash in 10 seconds flat, equalling the record made way back in 1899; and then two more trials heats and winning the 220 yards dash in 22 seconds. Such a performance...
...little before six o'clock in the morning the S. S. President Harding steamed into Plymouth Harbor amid a downpour of rain which cloaked the fair hills of Devon in a pall of heavy mist...
...secret banquet, a table decorated with bachelor's buttons (lychius diorca), love lies bleeding (amaranthus caudatus), and love in a mist (nigerra danascena), served by celibate servants, attended by 38 bachelors, provided a unique scene in the House of Commons restaurant. There were to have been 39, but one (Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson) "succumbed" the evening previous and became betrothed. " Shame kept him absent...
...soot-laden white mist of great weight. Owing to the warmth of the ground and the consequent lighter pressure the fog descends from its chilly couch in the skies-that is, when there is no wind to blow it away-and covers the earth until the heat gradually dissipates it. Were it not for the soot, the mist would probably be dissipated by the surface heat as it descended...
...rubber trees by coagulating the sap or " latex" with either smoke or chemicals; inevitably this method left impurities in the product, and sometimes when acids were employed valuable qualities of the original latex were destroyed. But by the new process, the latex is sprayed into a snow-white mist which, placed in contact with superheated air, is deprived of its water, but nothing else. Thus " sprayed rubber" is absolutely pure virgin rubber, remains dry indefinitely, is much stronger than ordinary "crude rubber " and-unlike the latter-is completely uniform in quality. The new process is the exclusive property...