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...spit an' image o' him," reported from Kentucky. . . . And, finally, in Uncle Remus, in "Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last," Joel Chandler Harris (the distinguished father, I assume, of our present correspondent) writes: "He had a wife en th'ee chilluns ole Br'er Tarrypin did, en dey wuz all de ve'y spit en image er Je ole man." It will be noted that Mr. Harris indicated the omission of the sound r in very with an apostrophe (as in the first example cited in this paragraph), but he does not indicate...
...wrong things that Eleanor said, Being Little in Cambridge begins with a scene of consternation when Eleanor declared she could remember her birth, cheerfully described it to some ecclesiastical visitors. It proceeds lightly to a few glimpses of Cambridge neighbors, including James Russell Lowell, Long fellow, Howells, Ole Bull, who played at a fair the Abbott children gave, recounts an abundance of childish pranks and fears with great relish...
...Dietrich Gerhard, Privatdozent in Modern History at the University of Berlin and Lecturer at the Deutsche Hochschule fur Politik, will be lecturer and tutor in History during the second half-year. Dr. Gerard Pieter Kulper, of the Lick Observatory, University of California, will be lecturer on Astronomy. Ole Singstad, Chief Engineer on Tunnels, Port of New York Authority, will visit Harvard to lecture at the Graduate School of Engineering. Kenneth Vivian Thimann, Instructor in Bacteriology, California Institute of Technology, will be lecturer on Botany during the first half-year...
...June 28 the brothers got caught in a thunderstorm, fought it out for two hours, broke a stabilizer brace wire. Ole Miss droned on. Next day Ole Miss got into a serious jam when a radio short circuit set the instrument board afire. Al shut off the motor, put out the fire in three minutes with a hand extinguisher. Red-eyed and unshaven, aching all over, the brothers were stained with grease and carbon. Al, 28, had lost 20 Ib. Fred, 25, had gained ten. By this time all Mississippi was basking in their achievement, and Governor Conner made them...
Still droning on, Ole Miss eclipsed the record of 647 hr. set by Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brine at St. Louis in 1930-unofficial because their instruments failed to satisfy the National Aeronautical Association. When the Colonels Key finally landed July 1 with two records in the bag, they had made some 75 refueling contacts, flown more than...