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London was wrapped in the darkness of night. A casual pedestrian, had he chanced to pass the House of Commons, would probably have stopped to admire its solemn dignity. His eye would have strayed upward, climbed the tower on which sits "Big Ben" and would have seen the light which shines above go out?the sign that a session had just ended. Not many minutes earlier, a weary man had risen from the Treasury Bench to make his way?some few hundred yards to his downy bed. . . . Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, had been battling...
...Eggs of the halobate, the only seagoing insect in the world, a long-legged ocean pedestrian similar to the fresh-water skipper or water spiders. These eggs, hitherto undiscovered, were found on the floating feathers of gannets (species of pelican...
Final Day. Ugo Frigerio, Italian pedestrian, strode in from the 10,000-metre walk with his country's first score. Osborne of America took the decathlon with a world's record point total. Clarence Houser's discus hurtled and ten more points were chalked up for the U. S. Four U. S. quarter-milers broke the world's 1,600-metre relay mark and four U. S. sprinters the 400-metre relay mark-20 more points. Nurmi, Ritola and their Finnish friends were not pressed for the 3,000-metre relay...
...Paris as hairs on a dog's back and the expression "No, thanks, I'm going to walk to the office as I haven't time to ride in an automobile," is in daily use. In across-Paris race between a bicycle, an automobile, a subway passenger and a pedestrian, the bicyclist won?time 17 mins., 16 secs., distance about 6 miles...
...winner of a cross-Paris race between bicycle, automobile, subway passenger, pedestrian...