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...more to it, but that's just an example. Rereading it now reminds me I haven't turned my headlights of Prophecy on today's contests. Before I do that, I'd like to announce that I have appropriated the motto which consigns Yale to the nether world for my own. The boys at New Haven have had an unpleasant way of acting exactly as I think they shouldn't act. But I feel sure I have put them in their right places today...
Oxford "bags" - trousers wide enough to hide effectively knocked knees, bowed legs and other nether malformations, and of colors gorgeous enough to shame a rainbow-were banned by the Provost of Eton, who stipulated that 20 inches round the ankle must be the maximum width...
First there was Roald Amundsen, intrepid wanderer in frozen places, who had planted the flag of Norway on the nether extremity of the globe. Then there was Riiser Larsen, his airplane pilot, and Lincoln Ellsworth, who piloted another airplane. Ellsworth, 45, son of an Ohio magnate, who first tasted the Arctic on an extensive survey for the Canadian Pacific R. R. in the Peace River area of Northwestern Canada, jumped to the tropics and reported on animal and vegetable life in Yucatan for the Smithsonian Institution, then north again to Baffin's Bay for the American Museum of Natural...
Just now the oil companies do not know quite where they are at, and nether does anyone else. The professional prophets of business tendencies hesitate to predict another oil crisis, yet it is apparent that the great prosperity predicted for the oil companies last Winter is equally uncertain...
...three to six months as the students themselves may decide, will be conducted at King's College and the London School of Economics in London, providing courses in English history, politics literature and modern languages. A short period in Brussels devoted--to the history and the art of the 'Nether'-lands will be followed by two months at the Sorbonne in Paris, where lectures will be mostly in French. During April, the school will be in Darmstadt, Germany, under the supervision of the Grand Duke of Hess, and Count Herman Keyserling, the founder of the school of Philosophy at Darmstadt...