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...various medals that you see celebrities sporting about Cambridge, with the bright colored ribbon, signify what sort of delegate the person...
...horsepower Normandie which in June 1935 set the record: 4 days, 3 hours, 28 minutes (average 30.31 knots). The Cunard White Star liner rounded Bishop's Rock this week to win in 3 days, 23 hours, 57 minutes (average 30.63 knots) She can thus hoist the "Blue Ribbon," take the Hales Trophy from the French liner, advertise herself as "the world's fastest ship...
...international air derby from New York to Paris on May 21, 1937.* Though details are still unsettled, the race will be open to all comers, will be for a first prize of 1,000,000 francs ($65,000). This promptly inspired the newspaper Intransigeant to offer an aeronautical Blue Ribbon of the Atlantic, declaim: "France desires that Colonel Lindbergh's exploit shall be commemorated as an historical event." If one condition of the proposal is carried out, the commemoration may well prove a shambles. Decreed Minister Cot: The race must be flown on May 21, come hell or hurricane...
...treacherous ribbon of curves and grades which you so graphically describe is the old Ridge Route, abandoned these past three years in favor of a three-and four-lane modern high-way which cuts almost straight across the mountains...
Bible of the medieval schoolmen was Aristotle; when herbalists began to list plants unmentioned by him, Aristotle's omniscience was first challenged. The first microscopists - Malpighi, Swammerdam, Leeuwenhoek-added their heretical testimony. With Buffon and Reaumur, 18th Century France temporarily captured the blue ribbon of Science. Then Sweden's Linnaeus revolutionized the study of nature by his field-trip to Lapland, gave the world the Linnaean system, the first great attempt to classify plants. The unconsidered Lamarck, with his theory of ''the inheritance of acquired characteristics," was the forerunner of the evolutionists...