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...Naval Reserve had the temerity to ascend in his plane to 2,500 ft., jerk the strings of a monster parachute folded in the fuselage behind the cockpit, shut off his motor and let the plane plunge toward the ground like a plummet. Anxious watchers saw a white mushroom suddenly billow above the dropping craft. With a jerk, the plane's fall was retarded to a comparatively gradual downward float, about 38 ft. per second. At first there was a sideways swing to the suspended plane, then it hung even below its straining, air-filled life-preserver, to which...
...brother, the late King Leopold II still reigns in Belgium. Secure within the armor of perpetual delusion she enjoys a tranquil happiness not vouchsafed to normal mortals. Sometimes she lives again the days when, as a child of nine, she romped sedately in a pelissed jacket beneath a mushroom hat. Sometimes she recalls proudly that her husband once called her "the better man of the two." Mastication. King Albert and Queen Elizabeth consumed only dark, coarse "War bread" throughout the week. Peasants, the bourgeoisie and the nobility likewise masticated this coarse fare. Exporters estimated that some 3,000,000 Belgian...
...whole brain looks like a dirty, wetted newspaper crumpled up and patted into somewhat the shape of a rounded bun. Another comparison might be to a lobsided mushroom, for the bottom of the brain runs into a sort of stalk, which is the spine...
Representing this point of view, the CRIMSON advocates a return to reason. What if the public clamors for its spectacles? Let it clamor! That is not the affair of the college. The mushroom growth of professional teams all over the country is an answer to the public cry. May they multiply and grow strong! Our primary concern, however, is not for the professionals. The present evil of football is in its overemphasis in the college. It is in the college, therefore, that remedies must be sought and found...
...others beside the unhappy journalist yearning for the golden era of the New York Sun in its prime have cause to take alarm at the sturdy growth of this bastard offspring of the more decent journals. The mushroom development to a circulation of 100,000 in less than a year Bernarr MacFadden's "Evening Graphic", trenchantly dubbed the "Porno Graphic", is food for unpleasant thought. It gives some color of justification to Dr. John Roach Straton's arraignment of modern civilization. If in some respects one discerns signs of healthy progress in American life, surely here is a mark...