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...masts, but no one has ever been lost. Each captain picked his own course, looking for wind. First to reach Hamilton was Dr. George W. Warren's Yankee Girl II of Manhattan, undaunted by a bursting waterspout less than a mile off her course. Class A: first prize (shortest time): John G. Alden's Malabar X; Class B: K. W. Ferris's Malay...
Atman in Hindustani means soul. With literal accuracy TIME could speak of Mahatma or "Great Soul" Gandhi. But in English such terms produce no clear cut impression. TIME, eschewing the nebulous, uses "St." for brevity and precision, as the shortest way of indicating that millions of Hindus revere the Mahatma exactly as Christians would a 1930 Saint...
Result: frantic scrambles not only in Mexico City but throughout the land as the nation's ill-equipped photographers slaved and sweated night and day to turn out 600,000 likenesses on shortest notice...
...recent British newspaper contest to dis cover the great personage who has the shortest title and address, the winner pointed out that to address correctly and respectfully an envelope to King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy requires the expenditure of but eight letters from which are formed three words: IL RE ROMA...
...Lake. The basis of the rumors about Arthur Curtiss James was the fact that he is Chairman of the Western Pacific, as well as being identified with the Burlington. The Moffat tunnel would link the Burlington, via the D. R. G. W., with the Western Pacific into the second shortest transcontinental route-the shortest being the Southern Pacific plus Union Pacific plus Chicago & Northwestern...