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...passing from a period of individual to one of collective expression. . . . Today we are less insistent on playing solo parts, and begin to be content with playing one part in the general orchestra. . . ." During my recent sojourn in Mexico I found startling confirmation of my ideas. There as I observed the impressive monuments of Toltec architecture, I stood in the presence of a great collective expression. ... In this connection I cannot understand why Americans who give millions for the restoration of Versailles, do not spend a few millions for the excavation of the uncounted temples in Central America...
...ocean championship at Del Ray Beach, Fla., in 1928. when she swam for 31 hr., 18 min. Since then. Mrs. Huddleston has been immersed in various bodies of water more frequently and for longer periods than anyone else of her sex. Most protracted was her sojourn in a Coney Island swimming pool which lasted for 60 hr.. 2 min. Last fortnight, she visited Lake Tahoe, on the border of California and Nevada, farther north than San Francisco, where the altitude, almost 6,500 feet, makes it hard for a swimmer to inflate her lungs comfortably and where something...
What, if you please, is the drink commonly termed "the lead shot"? In my rather brief sojourn of two years here, I have yet to drink this "fearful mixture of the sweetest and heaviest syrups of the soda fountain." Yet I frequent the soda fountains of Exeter with much regularity. But, being rather sceptical by nature and decidedly curious and feeling that my reputation as a soda fountain connoisseur was at stake, I made rather extensive inquiries, but regret to say that my search was unrewarded, for every storekeeper and proprietor in Exeter answered my demand for Exeter...
...week the squad will be free to do as it likes. Whiteside feeling that the danger of overtraining is greatest at this point in the season. On Sunday the University, Jayvee, and Freshman crews, substitutes, coaches, managers, attendants, and launch-drivers will leave for the three-week sojourn on the Thames before the New London regatta on June...
...most important is the element of friendly contact and personal acquaintance between statesmen which have developed in the course of conferences on these important subjects. Mr. Kellogg's visit to Paris in 1928, Prime Minister MacDonald's visit to Washington in the Autumn of 1929, and Mr. Stimson's sojourn in London during the Naval Conference, all have given proof of the value of that personal, friendly intercourse which it is the principal task of diplomacy to maintain...