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This is from South Sea Settlers, p. 261, by J. R. and B. B. by Grey, an English book republished here by Henry Holt & Co., New York. The authors are ranchers or farmers on the island Moorea near Tahiti in the Pacific, and as distance lends enchantments you might care to hear from your far-off readers through the above quotation. I am curious to know if the authors are really subscribers, and you might think proper to answer through TIME...
Pennsylvania returned to Franklin Field, Philadelphia, after preliminary weeks at Sea Girt, N. J., pleased that the famed drop kicker, Folwell Scull, has recovered from injury...
...Cherrie then left the party and proceeded by caravan with the valuable assemblage of specimens to Constaniff-nople by the way of the Caspian Sea and through the Caucasus Mountains...
There, as in Japan, wharves, jetties, ships, buildings were hurled landwards or smacked flat by mighty impact. Later the shattered remnants were sucked into the sea by the retreating water...
...reasons for stopping were not entirely domestic. The next jump was 2,500 miles over the Pacific to the tiny Midway Islands, lonely coral reefs where landing ground for an airplane was problematical. Cables said that fuel for the next hop, to Honolulu (1,400 miles over the sea), had not arrived at Midway Islands. Neither Schlee nor Brock is a navigator. Aviation experts all over the world regarded the jump as certain suicide. Scores of protest-cables awaited the flyers in Tokyo. Said Mr. Brock: "We quit because the entire world is fighting us." There was another possible reason...