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...Skipper Sopwith won the first two races before losing the series to Skipper Vanderbilt's Rainbow. The historic one-sidedness of this year's series caused the more irreverent members of the daily sporting press to surpass themselves in humorous abuse at the loser's expense. In the opinion of Joe Williams of the New York World-Telegram: "Sopwith is a palooka back of the wheel." "Sopwith," observed Jack Miley in the New York Daily News, "is now only three challenges and a goatee behind the late Sir Thomas Lipton...
Biggest argument for donations which Mr. Osborn has is the museum's increasing popularity. Attendance . exceeded 1,000,000 in 1932 and rose steadily to 2,491,582 last year, will surpass that this year. Through motion picture and lantern slide shows and circulating collections, curators last year reached another 40,000,000 minds...
...armies will exceed even these impressive figures. To a certain extent the countries ruled by dictators can match their rivals dollar for dollar, but not in the long run. As long as the democracies remained content with third-rate military machines, the dictators, with their limited resources, could still surpass them and make a good pretense at ruling the world. With the recent awakening of Great Britain the situation has shifted, and that empire has shown that it is willing to use its unparalleled wealth to protect its challenged interests...
...vetch in water from springs and rivers. First experiments which involved adding nutrient chemicals to the water are credited to a German named Knop (1859). Growing commercial crops in water is another matter. At Berkeley, Dr. Gericke aimed at producing tank crops which would economically compete with or surpass soil-grown crops. So successful was he that several California vegetable and flower growers have changed to water culture, more than a dozen branch experiment stations have been opened, and Dr. Gericke enjoys a "fan mail" of some 500 letters a week...
...simple, brilliant idea. This was to pay 10% of the net profits to the charitable fund of the San Francisco Fire Department and to mark all buildings insured by the company with a metal "house plate." Since they had a financial interest in the company, firemen were expected to surpass themselves putting out fires in these buildings. Whether aided by this or not, the new company did so well in fiery San Francisco that two years later it decided to get along without the Fire Department, donated $5,000 cash to the fund and abandoned the 10% payment plan...