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Pinging bullets and popping firecrackers accompanied the celebration last week of China's New Year. The bullets were pinging a scant 150 miles outside Shanghai, but in that city and most others green paper dragons a block long were writhing through the streets borne by scores of coolies. Over 500 wounded soldiers were brought in during the week from the battle lines defending Shanghai;† but simultaneously Shanghai Chinese were calling at one another's homes to pay off debts contracted during the old year and to present huge New Year's "cards" on thin red paper...
...thing under the tarpaulin was still alive. Clamdiggers found it there, on the lonely California beach, a malodorous bundle of bone and gristle, patched with scant hair, hollowed, salt-whitened, stark, ragged
...years ago wrote: "A walk up Fifth Avenue in New York, from Madison Square to the Park, with one's eyes open . . . leaves an indelible impression of chaos that is certainly without form, if it is not wholly void. Here one may see in a scant two miles (scant, but how replete with experiences!) treasure-trove of all peoples and all generations: Roman temples and Parisian shops; Gothic of sorts (and out of sorts) from the 'carpenter-Gothic' of 1845 through Victorian of that ilk, to the most modern and competent recasting of ancient forms and restored...
...expressed his personal opinion that the agreement should be changed. "A start of even a week earlier would infinitely benefit the players," he remarked. "The longer, period would enable the coaches to make the training process more gradual and less arduous. Under the present arrangement, with a scant ten days before the opening game, intensive training is entered into at once, and is carried on at an exhausting pace throughout the season. An earlier training date would obviate the need for hurry, render the training less intensive, and result in better physical condition of the players, who are often worn...
...There should be an adequate period of hard training to prepare the players for the hurts that will come early in the year, and which may later be avoided. Under the present agreement a scant ten days or two weeks remain between the opening of training and the first game. This year, for example, we played Geneva, a veteran team with a month's training behind it, in our first game after a very short training period. We were beaten, clearly outclassed, and overcome by a better-conditioned eleven...