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...Anthony Eden endeared himself to street crowds, got along well with reporters. At the start of his speech at the Waldorf-Astoria, he said: ". . . This visit of mine . . . has no political significance whatever. It is not official, my visit: it isn't even semi-official or even a sixteenth-part official. It is a visit of friendship...
With every measurement precise to a sixteenth of an inch, the newly completed squash courts are among the finest in the country. For every court there is a gallery for either spectators or for coaching purposes; moreover, a coach may direct on several courts at once. Two of the courts may be used for handball as well as squash...
Most Diesel engines have high compression ratios of about 16-to-1. The upstroke of a Diesel piston compresses the air above it into one-sixteenth of its volume until its heat is something like 1,000° F. A drop of fuel is then sprayed into the cylinder head, and ignited by this heat. The resulting explosion forces the piston down in the power stroke...
...start Thingumabob bobbled. He was way back in seventh place at the end of the first sixteenth. Then he began to move up. At the end of the first furlong he was in second place, coming up in an open switch on the inside of Ariel Toy, the pacemaker. Suddenly Ariel Toy closed the switch by cutting towards the rail. Thingumabob reared, then crumpled. His right front ankle had snapped above the fetlock. He limped to the outside fence, fell to his knees, gallantly lifted himself to his feet again as the track veterinarian shot him dead...
Spanish 4 and 2 are the only courses which can qualify as Spanish literature courses. The former is a general view, corresponding to French 6, and could almost stand being a full course. Professor Ford gives both this and number 2 on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and Cervantes. The defect of the other Spanish literature courses is that there is too much emphasis on the mechanics of translation. Whittem, and to a lesser degree Rivera, are both at their best on composition and tend to neglect the literary aspect of their material...