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Businessmen with heart trouble should always run to catch their trains, shovel snow, smoke two packs of cigarettes a day and lose their tempers frequently. Fat men should eat heartily to make sure they stay fat. Middle-aged executives should play 72 holes of golf or five sets of tennis singles with a teen-ager every weekend. Above all, every executive should work as if there were 28 hours in each day, and whenever an ailment crops up, avoid doctors and treat it himself...
Using avant garde shovel blades called "Jumbo Bats," Isis tralled all the way, challenging only at the mile marker, where it came to within one-quarter length of the sprinting varsity. Crimson stroke Tony Goodman and company finished the mile, 550 yard course in 6:39, a new record for the Henley distance...
...eight-man rowing final a fast-stroking German crew, using
revolutionary, shovel-shaped oars, defeated Canada by three-quarters of
a length, left the U.S. Naval Academy's rowers adrift in fifth place.
For the U.S. the loss was the first in the event since 1912.
...shovel, to be put to bed with a-to be so drunk one must be assisted home
...restricted to alternating one-way traffic with cutoffs for passing. Traffic moves at a maximum speed of 15 m.p.h. To build it, the government mobilized more than 12,000 workers. Hanging by ropes over the edges of thousand-foot cliffs, workmen planted dynamite, then with pick and shovel carved the highway into near-vertical rock faces. All told, the road required 61 bridges and 85 tunnels. Accidents were almost a daily occurrence. One typhoon last August washed out four whole miles, necessitating complete rebuilding at a higher level...