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...miles apart. From these, they can fly over a considerable portion of Antarctica's 5.000,000 square miles, studying many a curious problem. Geologists will have hunted fossils. Astronomers will have gazed at the beautiful aurora australis, southern counterpart of the aurora borealis (northern lights). Cameramen Willard Vander Veer and Joseph T. Ruckner will have filmed scenes for a gripping ice drama of the future, to be produced by Paramount Pictures. Newsgatherer Russell Owen will have assembled material for a hundred exclusive stories in the New York Times...
...flows freely and time is lightly slain. Goodnight points out significantly that a car enables a student of weak character to procure liquor more easily. Whether a student of strong character can procure his liquor easily without a car or can resist the steering gear's natural tendency to veer toward a blind tiger he does...
...straddled as widely as he could, and it is reported that he will propose a levy on income so "broad" that it amounts to practically the same thing as one on capital. But that would not suit the Socialists. Why then did not M. Painlevé yield completely and veer to the extreme Left, adding to his support the 100 Socialist votes? Answered the politicians: "He knew that if he won a Left majority in the Chamber with the capital levy, that measure would be later crushed by the Rights in the Senate. He chose to straddle. It was perhaps...
...Little Chief, My Own. Sweeping the turn, streaking down the backstretch, Epinard's chestnut head showed the way. Inch by inch Wise Counsellor moved up-abreast, ahead. Came Ladkin farther out, little by little; then he too was ahead. On the turn Epinard was seen to slow up, veer right, flatten out again in a dash for the outside after losing four lengths. Jockey Haynes had feared a "pocketing" but his caution was costly. Racing through the home stretch Epinard was one heart-breaking stride short of Ladkin at.the finish...
...that they could not attain an elevation of more than 6,500 ft. The bastions ,of the Rockies, therefore, were impassable; they felt obliged to skirt them. The route was changed. Leaving Chicago, they were scheduled to fly, not by way of Cheyenne and Salt Lake City, but to veer south, with Omaha, Dallas and Tucson as their main stopping places on the sky trail to California...