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...Opinions vary on height above ground a jumper must be for his parachute to open safely. Some say he falls 150 feet before floating; soberest flyers prefer 1,000 feet to light safely...
...charges when he deliberately proportions his treatment to feature the sensational and erotic at the expense of the significant. More, it is impossible to determine what is gossip and what is historical fact, for his voluminous quotation of Napoleon's words is from many sources, varying in authenticity from soberest records to the completely apocryphal. Where Napoleon fails to leave words of moment on a weighty occasion, Ludwig soliloquizes for him. These is scarcely a clue to the authority for a single passage, though occasionally Bourienne is mentioned. There is not even a modest bibliographical list...
...Outlook, soberest of U. S. reviews, craved the indulgence of its readers for any tardiness with which they might receive Vol. 138, No. 11, dated Nov. 12, explaining that No. 11 had been withheld from the presses until Nov. 5 that the editors might "interpret the verdict of the voters on the Presidential campaign." When No. 11 reached its readers, its opening words were these...
...soberest of U. S. reviews...
...very few of Satie's published compositions that is wholly adapted to the conditions of the concert room. In this production, which will be heard for the first time tonight, Satie bases the music on extracts from the Dialogues of Plato. It is also one of the soberest pieces that the singular Parisian has set to music...