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...half-length ahead in a dozen strokes, a length ahead after the first minute. Past Harrod's wharf and under Hammersmith Bridge Oxford was in front and round the bend into rough water and a wind that thinned the falling drops. Over the flat banks of the Stork, that tiny island past the first bridge, the wind spread whitening fans upstream, and Robert Swartwout, U. S. coxswain of the Cambridge boat, veered over toward the bank, looking for shelter. The water was white all the way to Corney Reach, at the second bend, but Oxford felt the wind most...
...outfit. Agents were professionally addressed as pigeon-men, cat-men, fish-men. The pigeon-men traipsed through long rows of cages, following taciturn judges who pointed metal wands at the chosen birds-tumblers, carriers, homers. Ella, a parrot, cried: "When in Childs do as the children do." Pavlova, stork, danced a jig. Socrates, cinnamon bear, ponderously spelled out proverbs with colored blocks: BE GOOD AND YOU'LL BE LONESOME. EARLY TO BED. EARLY TO RISE AND YOU'LL NEVER MEET ANY PROMINENT PEOPLE. Florenz Ziegfeld bought a white wolf, not for his daughter Patricia but to give...
...fall crew season, which ended two weeks ago with a aeries recited a lack of heavyweight University material, stork oars in particular; excellent 150-pound material; and great potentialities in the Freshman squad...
Tailless Plane. A triangular shaped "stork" plane, lacking conventional tail structure, flew 78 m.p.h. with a 8-h.p. motor, at Berlin. Its constructor, Alexander Lippisch, thus approximated the flying goal of an all-wing ship...
Science classifies Balaeniceps rex as a heron, although it is very like a stork...