Word: quicksands
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...held implicit, and no phrases are wasted in commentary. As a study of futile people--people sinister in their futility--it is memorable. Even the death of John Graves was accomplished by a few inches of muddy water from which he could easily have arisen, instead of the quicksand he so grandly imagined it to be. The book holds one's interest throughout...
...between the Bay and the Berkeley foothills, a new $2,000,000 race track called the Golden Gate Turf Club has been opened by a group of California turfmen, headed by President Harry Brown of the Interocean Steamship Corp. Three years ago such a venture would have been considered quicksand suicide: there were scarcely enough high-grade thoroughbreds in the U. S. to keep two big California tracks going during the winter. But Californians have recently gone in for breeding...
...dream. They will say, "It is insane the President will never do it. It means changing the deepest convictions of 130,000,000 people." It is not a dream. Actually, the so-called "deepest convictions" of America are the insanity, the nightmare that is drawing us down into the quicksand of hopelessness, desperation, and war. A clear voice speaking with the strong tone of leadership will wake the people from their delirium. Only a daring and challenging new approach to the problem can clear...
...Quicksand? With the exception of smart Simon & Schuster, who have a share in the business, most publishers were skeptical. Said one: "We are cooperating because of all the agitation for cheap books and the success of cheap books in Europe. We feel we ought to give it a chance-to show that it won't work here. If we thought it would really go, we would hesitate much longer about letting him have our plates." Said another: "The price is still too high for paperbound books-they have to sell at 10? or 15?, compete with magazines." A third...
Pierce Hall contains the new windtunnel, just completed last fall for tests of model airplanes in wind speeds ranging up to 140 miles an hour. Here also is the Harvard Soil Mechanics laboratory, a pioneer in its field, where may be seen graphic experiments of the formation of quicksand, landslides, the failure of earth dams and building foundations, and frost heaving...