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WHEN, some three or four years ago, Donn Byrne wrote "Messer Marco Polo", people said in effect "He has written his masterpiece; he will never be able to surpass this in delicacy or in colorfulness." Last year when "Hangman's House," appeared as a best seller in the stalls people were a bit surprised. Here was a book that not only rivaled "Messer Marco Polo" on its own ground, so to speak, but had something else beside--a haunting something, intangible but with a sweet tang to it, like the smell of lavender or the earth after a rain...
...abuse, of the English language determined the course into which these gentlemen directed their life efforts. Architecture, strangely enough, has attacked the next largest total, possibly, the four years of practice in reproducing the structural designs in the Yard created a mystic urge to imitate, or possibly to surpass, these models for generations of undergraduate artists. Of the two hundred considered, there was a goodly number whose labors in the humorous fortnightly's art department evidently inspired them to further and possibly higher creative endeavors, and they became artists...
Poultry statistics compiled by the Wall Street Journal state that this business is now equal to that of the U. S. wheat crop. Only corn, cot- ton, hay surpass. Minnesota and Missouri reported rapid growth in poultry values...
...maintained indefinitely. But if we place in them a living organism in perpetual growth, the index of the scales will be changed with velocity equal to that of the difference between the development of the two organisms. The organism which is developing itself with the greater rapidity will soon surpass the weight of the other and will cause the scales to tip in its favor...
...them far aloft by kites, finally lowering them to a considerable depth in the pure waters of a high-altitude lake.* And their conclusions, announced last week, paralleled Dr. Millikan's: bombarding the earth from the surrounding universe are some hitherto unknown rays, of submicroscopic wavelength, which far surpass even the gamma rays of radium in their power to penetrate matter. They will pass through a block of steel three feet thick, through six feet of lead...