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...front lawn, which forms a natural grandstand for the race in the valley below, the crowd watched the seven starters charge over the first jump, held its breath as they reached the third, known as the Union Memorial Fence.* After that dreaded obstacle was surmounted without mishap, a roar thundered through the lush valley. Blockade was in the lead, Coq Bruyere far behind. Fencing perfectly and lightning fast on the flat, Blockade clung to his lead. Not until the 18th jump did Coq Bruyere challenge. They took the last fence neck & neck. Then, in as exciting a stretch finish...
Alfred Mahan died December 1, 1914, 18 months before the British and German fleets met at Jutland. Among his obituaries was a tribute that would have delighted Mahan: "The super-dreadnoughts are his children, the roar of the 16-inch guns are but the echoes of his voice...
...Commander of the Sixth Corps area." It ordered all young men to report their names at once, be prepared for a war draft. As the collegians sat speechless, up jumped one of their number to cry: "You'll be fools to enlist!" From a hundred throats came a roar: "Yellow!" In a trice Cornell's student body was on its feet, shouting, screaming, stamping. In the midst of the uproar the leader of Cornell's swing band leaped on the platform, saxophone in hand, and began to jam. As Cornell's undergraduates realized that they...
Lengthening the gap on each hill, the wooden-faced Indian, pattering along in the rain, was soon out of sight of his closest rival. When he reached the finish line, a roar of applause greeted him. His time: 2 hr., 28 min., 51 4/5 sec.-more than 27 seconds faster than the alltime record set by Japan's Kitei Son in the 1936 Olympics. Crowned with the traditional laurel wreath and hailed as a super-runner, Marathoner Brown, a stone mason by trade, smiled feebly. Said he: "I would like to have a steady job instead...
Scarcely half an hour went by before the big doors to the balcony over the Palazzo's main entrance were opened. Out stepped the familiar figure of Benito Mussolini, their leader, followed by Achille Starace, the Fascist Party Secretary. The shouts burst into a deafening roar. Up went the raised arm of II Duce in acknowledgment. Up spoke Signor Starace through loud speakers commanding all to salute Italy's empire builder...