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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Since he has not time to hunt for caribou, he carries five months' food for his men as well as the rations of his dogs (two pounds of dried salmon a day for each husky). In all he has five tons of supplies and four canoes of the Petersboro type, especially built in Canada from specifications by the Geological Survey...
...object to Church activities in politics. ... I don't want people to unite in benevolent conspiracies, headed by men of the W. H. Anderson type, telling us what to do with our laws. I am a Protestant, coming from an old line of Protestants, but I assert that it is of greater significance that I am an American coming from an old line of Americans. If I controlled the next Democratic National Convention I would name a Catholic. If we can't nominate a man for the Presidency unless he belongs to some particular sect it is time...
Newspaper writing is not ordinarily a matter of inspiration. It has certain set forms and rules. These being complied with-and they come naturally to a man after some experience-any newspaper story is a satisfactory story. But this routine type of writing can get into a man's blood, become instinctively necessary to him. The following is a story which complies with newspaper tradition: "Los ANGELES-Suffering from the effects of a fractured skull, from which he never recovered his mental powers, Frank C. Kingsland, newspaper man, committed suicide at a downtown hotel by shooting himself...
...winning pair consisted of Maurice Brocco "the little wop," and Marcel Buysse, native Belgian. For six days the architectural monstrosity of Madison Square resounded with the cry "Br-r-occ-o-o!" Idlers and sportsmen of a type would step in to see the race at odd intervals, would cry "Br-r-occ-o-o!" and depart...
When Coach Stevens came to Harvard last fall, he brought with him the so-called Western American or English professional type of rowing. This system's essential feature is the utilization of the powerful leg muscles instead of the weaker back muscles, which were used so much in the old Harvard method of leaning far forward, and backward at the beginning and end of the pull-through...