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Sirs: Again on the subject of military dress-TIME, May 3, p. 18, column i: ''Filty thousand Britons ... to gaze at the Royal Horse Guards in glistening breast plates and scarlet tunics. . . ." Because of their distinctive costume and the title of their colonel, the Royal Horse Guards were known as the Oxford Blues soon after their formation in 1661. Today the supplementary official title of the regiment and the one by which it is commonly known is The Blues...
Upon closer examination the "Irregularity" revalued itself as a great stream of these tremendous "universes," which are faint only because of their great distance. Each of the "universes" is comparable to our won Milky Way, which has an extreme diameter of more than a hundred thousand light years and a population of hundred billion stars...
Cambridge, May 10--Two thousand students of the University of Cambridge in the American State of Massachusetts have tried to force entrance into a boarding-school for girls from the most prominent families of the State...
...doing some reading among ancient Irish legends a few years ago I found evidence of a much more ambitious lake-dweller. Two thousand or more men did she kill in a single day, it was claimed, the victims being members of the great Irish warrior band called the Fiana. This having a crippling effect on the ranks, their captain delegated the son of the King of Greece, who understood the language of all monsters, to make a bargain with her. For 50 horses or 50 cows a day she agreed to leave the Fiana in peace...
...born roses growing in the crevices of a Doric temple two thousand year old . . . . In Florence: A young Monk, holding gown above his knees, running to catch a crowded trolley car . . . A well-dressed woman from New York, puffing a cigarette in a corner of her mouth, pin a red rose on a shabby beggar who was blind . . . . A thousand black birds break their journey through the sky and stop at a marble ruin lit with moonlight . . . . Mussolini, the Pope and George Santayana...