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Even Yale's year-round practice schedule fails to perturb Bolles. "It's all right by me if they train thirteen months a year," he observed drily. "If, they get a kick out of it, more power to them, but you can only train so long before you reach a physical peak, and after that the chances of going stale are that much greater...
...inflation the value of the native currency is constantly dropping") and his soap-opera similes ("When the sun came up, the Vardar Valley looked like a young woman in a transparent white negligee standing in the morning light rubbing the sleep out of her eyes"). But criticism should not perturb bearded Bob St. John, whose faith in Tito is matched by faith in his own powers as a philosopher. "The moon," he muses, his travels over, "moved in her slow, inscrutable way across the heavens. . . . Nature has a great mystic purpose. But man founders. . . . Man, the one discordant note...
...sport fields and theatres, public works such as motor roads, reclamation of marsh lands, building of new cities, construction of transatlantic liners, excavations of noble Roman ruins, and colonization of Ethiopia are all positive achievements. The negative catcalls of Communists in the Daily Worker most certainly will not perturb Britain, nor frighten British investors in Glorious Ethiopia...
Malaria is stoically accepted as the recurrent curse of the Southern states. Last year South Carolina had more than its normal share of the disease and in Camden County, N. C. a particularly malignant form laid some 500 persons low in two months. These outbreaks, however, did not perturb the rest of the nation. People know that only mosquitoes carry malaria infection from one person to another. Hence those who live in malarial districts shield themselves from mosquitoes by screening their windows, putting netting over their beds and dosing themselves with quinine. The more foresighted prevent the breeding of mosquitoes...
...Airspeed Envoy monoplane Stella Australis (Star of Australia), an unprepossessing craft in which to attempt the hazardous flight from California to Australia. Her lack of power and last-minute patchwork of fabric, however, failed to perturb Flight Lieutenant Charles T. P. Ulm, who had made the Pacific crossing in 1928 with Air Commodore Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith in the Southern Cross. Said he: "I don't intend to get my feet...