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...John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank, Scotland, on Sept. 27, 1938, at 3:36 in the afternoon, Queen Elizabeth gravely said: "We cannot foretell the future, but in preparing for it we share a trust in a Divine Providence and in ourselves"; then snipped a ribbon which released a bottle of champagne to christen the world's largest liner (85,000 tons, 1,030 feet overall) with her own name. Into the water slipped the Queen Elizabeth, and into troublous times...
...seem to go in the right direction; you stumble. Your hand reaches out to steady yourself, and finds another hand in it. Funny, you never think to ask Why. She is there, and that's all, skating with you. She has brown hair tied back with a ribbon and a trim green dress. You are both talking at once; you have so much to say. Just as though you have known each other for years...
...planets. Sir James Jeans pictured the passing star as raising a huge tide on the sun, eventually pulling out a long filament of sun-stuff which broke up into major pieces. British Harold Jeffreys favored an actual collision of sun and star, the two bodies drawing out a ribbon of their commingled substance as they veered away from each other. Other theorists supposed that the sun had originally been a double star, that an intruding third star had carried away the sun's companion but had left behind enough debris for planet-building...
...blue ribbon event of the night will be the 600 yard run in which Jim Lightbody will attempt to maintain his superiority, established when he set a new record of 1 minute 12.4 seconds last year. Dramatic interest will be added to the race because this will probably be the only time Lightbody will run alone in the intercollegiates in the indoor season; he will concentrate on the relays at the intercollegiates. As a fitting climax, Lighbody may break his own record at the meet. It is expected that Cornell's new Sophomore star, Ken Zeigler, Jim Ord of Yale...
Like a slow ribbon of cigar smoke in a smoky room, a story curled around the House of Representatives last week. It got in Congressmen's eyes, made them cough and blink. The story was as hard to take as a Wheeling stogie, and like a stogie, it carried a kick...