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...year, and has already been victorious over the Harvard Freshmen this spring. Several new schools are coming in this year, among them Broomfield High and Clark School. Several Burlington High athletes are also coming down from Vermont, to show that the competition is not limited to a 50 mile radius around Boston...
...raison d'étre of the book is the author, for R. F. Foster is a unique character. Almost what Hoyle* was to the 18th century, Mr. Foster is to the 20th (particularly within the radius of Manhattan newspapers). He was 40 years old when he became "card editor of the New York Sun. Soon famed as authority on auction bridge, his production of literature on cards within the last 20 years has been enormous. The "rule of eleven owes its origin to him. Men by the thousand and women by the ten thousand have applied themselves to study...
...clock strikes with much metallic prelude; and by the time the miracle is once more accomplished, the chime strikes the quarter with such gusto that the child's temper is permanently ruined. There is a great deal of romance about bells; but is not fully evident anywhere within a radius of half a mile...
...carried out: a better meteorological service for aviators; air units in military schools; an air force in Alaska; an agreement with Canada for airways northward from the continental U.S.; an airplane capable of traveling 200 miles an hour at 30,000 feet altitude and with a cruising radius of 1,500 miles; a study of how to repel an aerial attack on cities such as New York. He said that he believed an enemy war ship lying 100 miles off Manhattan could pump aerial torpedoes into the city...
...delayed the Bowdoin and Peary as far south as Battle Harbor, Labrador. When they reached Etah, they found that heavy winter storms had pared down the beach and piled it with boulders until it was impossible for the planes to take off from land. This cut down their cruising radius from 1,000 to 700 mi. and made necessary a food and fuel way-station betwen Etah and Axel-Heiberg Land. During the past fortnight the planes scoured Ellesmere Land for a safe site and thought to have found one in Flagler Fjord. They left some fuel and oil, flew...