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...that we are entering upon a new era in University history? Can it be that the new yearlings are smoother, more sauve, more gifted with a knowledge of this world and its ways than their predecessors...
...unofficially "the world's fastest liner."* At times her 125,,000 h. p. turbines drove her bulb-stemmed hull 29 knots. With her smaller sister the S. S. Conte di Savoia, she is Il Duce's supreme bid for traffic over the longer, warmer, and some say smoother southern route. When the Rex ploughs up New York Harbor seven days out of Naples on her maiden voyage in October, she will have sliced two full days from the southern run. With Italy only one sea day beyond Paris, Il Duce expects his Italia Line will now bring swarms...
...held. Nevertheless, this second workout was fully a minute better, despite a bumpy final mile. The stroke remained at 30 right until the final spurt, when the oarsmen went up to 36 and looked smooth indeed in doing so. More than anything else, the impressive factor was the smoother oarsmanship and better run as compared not only with the showings in the sprints but with the final workouts last week...
...regularity. Modern civilization is founded on technology, which is essentially planned and scientific. A blue-print plan for the future would, then, bring our economic system into harmony with the technical efficiency which created it. No rule of thumb procedure is sufficient to bring the world back to a smoother running order...
...Wimbledon Golf Course, near London. As he teed his ball and attempted to intimidate it with the emphatic waggle which marks him as a mediocre golfer, it doubtless never crossed the Prince's mind that he might get a hole-in-one. Nevertheless, after a swing a little smoother and a click a little firmer than usual, the ball soared straight to the apron of the green, rolled between two hummocks true to the pin and, with a little plop inaudible from the tee, went in. If the Prince was surprised, he was also justly proud...