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With a spanking breeze on the quarter the two ships might have expected to scud down to their destination in three or four days. The bigger of the two, the 168-ft. Seven Seas, once had a speed of 18 knots entered in her log (five knots better than the best time of the sloop-rigged America's Cup-winning Ranger). But the breeze last week was light and from the south, too close for the three-masters to lay a straight course. It seemed likely that the race might last a fortnight...
...south they came, slipping through the low scud over Concord, over Claremont, over the Junction, and over Hanover: 36 planes of the Army Air Corps, throbbing like malignant bees. Perhaps they followed the thin silver ribbon of the Connecticut up from Springfield, maybe they streaked up the distended threads of the B. & M. from Boston. At any rate, it was perfectly evident that the Army Air Corps was protecting New England from the "enemy...
...Baluk is dragged off the pyre still alive to lead the tribe against the milling, trampling, stampeding, incredible game herd. Dagwan is sent away for "the slow death" (starvation) while the tribe feasts and laughs and toboggans. The silent enemy, Hunger, snarls his defeat from the lowering arctic storm-scud...
This was an age of letter-writing among the ladies of the period. Most of them wrote about the trivialities of Court life and paid floods of compliments to the King and the "reigning mistress ;" few ventured upon criticisms. Those letters of de Scudéry, de Sévigné, de Grignan or de Maintenon were obsequious in character, unless they engaged in abstract discussion of the Arts or turned to the contemplation of Nature, which was the rarest of expedients. The letters of de Maintenon (widow of the poet Scrarron) were naturally centred upon the King...
...largely given up to stories, two of a light, not to say fantastic character, two of a more serious sort. Both the former are very good of their kind. "Pomath," by E. R. Little '04, is a whimsical combination of humor and wild invention. "The Mermaid and the Schooner Scud" is quite as funny, quite as well told, and if possible even more improbable. "At the End of Four Years," signed "Ezra Kidd," gives a new version of a rather common plot, with a technique and setting decidedly better than the common. A mistaken impression that each number must have...