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...dinners. The practical, measurable service which the Association performs amply justifies its existence without even touching upon the opportunities for expression and consulation which it constantly offers those who wish to take advantage of them. The sending of clothes to destitute parts of the globe, the distribution of food nearer home and the collection of books for the ship libraries are all distinctly worth while services in themselves...
...flying fishes play very well, no doubt, but they offer no real intellectual stimulus, and the dawn coming up like thunder all the time must be as monotonously tactless as Wagnerian opera or the alarm-clock. Moreover there is China always across the bay, never any nearer, never any further, serene, immovable, Chinese...
...Vedder tradition evidently, that both Fish and Hope Weston are trying, in their respective manners, to get away from. Just how much nearer this brings them to Jamshid and Kaiko-bad may be a question, but certainly color helps out the illusion, sometimes magically-even though Fish seems oftener Parisian than Persian, and Hope Weston is rather like an orientalized English Rackham or Dulac...
...interesting fact that helium airships using gasoline fuel become lighter and lighter, owing to the loss of water vapor from the combustion of the gasoline. To keep the ship down, helium has to be released to bring the weight nearer to that of air. This has made long flights costly and impracticable. But a method of condensing and retaining the water vapor has been devised which keeps the weight uniform and saves the helium...
...sight of it has been such a rebuke as Christendom has not suffered since the great Moslem reformation first purged the decadent Eastern Christendom of the Middle Ages. ... I believe that American Protestantism and British Nonconformism have their greatest task still ahead of them and that that task is nearer home than Islam. I believe that task is nothing less than the salvage of the practice of Christianity from the wreck the Christians themselves have made...