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...such a work I believe you must concede when you reflect that while "one's feet would strike upsloping ground more quickly than level," they would leave it less quickly. To put it another way, while on a track sloping slightly upward the ground in front is nearer the point where a runner's legs join his body, the ground behind is farther from it. And picking up one's feet is harder work than putting them down...
...public sympathy, perhaps) to the high cost of distributing Power. By way of adroit analogy he mentioned water, which costs nothing at its source, and bananas. "The cost of the banana on the tree is infinitesimal, yet by the time it has been gathered and transported the ratio is nearer 1,500 than...
...that Byrd's two photographers, Joseph Rucker and Willard Van der Veer, did some epic work. They show you clearly what an exploration party is like: men dealing minutely with a great isolation, making laborious preparations against hypothetical crises, living every day so as to come a step nearer an illusory goal. Pushing past the Ross Barrier (wall of ice guarding Antarctica) to and over the Queen Maude Mountains, Byrd and his men moved to the Pole step by step, laying out emergency bases, foreseeing, taking precautions. Byrd might have taken a chance and made a dash...
...companies Berliner-Joyce, Curtiss-Caproni, Doyle Aero. Industries such as these, Baltimoreans hope, will transform their City of Monuments into a city of tycoons, will swell Baltimore's population from 850,000 to the more satisfactory 1,000,000. Such transformation and swelling seemed to move a step nearer last week when a new $5,000,000 Procter & Gamble factory was nearing completion. Gratefully, therefore, a group of Baltimoreans planned to give in the Chesapeake Club on the top floor of the new skyscraping Baltimore Trust Co., a dinner in honor of Col. Procter...
Along the main street of Angels Camp, Calaveras County, Calif., last week gathered 10,000 coatless, holiday-bent people. It was the day of the International Championship Standing Broad Jump for Frogs. As the impatient crowd elbowed to get nearer the street an official of the town's greatest sporting event pushed his way through, drew a chalk-line on the pavement, placed the first contestant...