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...Irish Free State is the smallest British Dom-'nion, but is technically a "nation," just as are the larrer "dominions...
...rakish clothes that nobody had ever seen before. Men said she was fast; but she was no girl for rough weather. They sent her out to sea as a noble experiment. A week passed and they didn't hear from her whose name was Rofa, 50-foot schooner, smallest of four small schooners racing from Sandy Hook to Santander, Spain. Her rigging was peculiar-designed by Herreshoff, who learned about sails in Scandinavian fjords. On the morning of the seventh day out, she had covered 800 miles and was making splendid headway, with her mainsail, foresail, forestay sail...
...independent State of Liechtenstein, once a fief of the Holy Roman Empire, is now the smallest Principality in Europe (65 sq. mi.), lies between Switzerland and Austria, produces corn, wine, marble...
Edward Douglas Stair, 69, is director of Graham-Paige Motors Corp., the Detroit Trust Co., the First National Bank of Detroit, amusement enterprises. He is president and principal owner of the Detroit Free Press. The Free Press is the smallest of Detroit's three newspapers (the News and Times are the others). Nonetheless its daily circulation is 229,294; its Sunday 276,016. It makes Mr. Stair an important force in Detroit and its environs...
Dunois, Capron, Bordelais, Renaud-all with shrivelled hams, bald or bleached heads, varicose veins, and wrinkled phizzes-ran three kilometres in Paris in a race for men over 70 years old. Dunois, smallest and youngest, won. Said he: "I am old, it is true, but I am tough...