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...boys themselves who start off with the customary cracks at the "deah old Harvard Ladies," and then continue in an equally intelligent vein; and there are the humorless, but conscientious Harvard alumni who write in and deplore the Crimson's "hasty and unwise policy;" still others hold "older men," viz., the board of directors, responsible; and a few strike out boldly in their wholehearted approval...
There was one very strange thing about this disaster. In similar dirigible wrecks, viz., those of the Shenandoah and the ZR2 (built by England, sold to the U. S.; destroyed over Hull, Eng., Aug. 1921), wind whirled the vessels high before their destruction. In the R-101'S case, the wind and rain seemed to have done the reverse, pressed the ship down to earth, buckled it from above...
Such colossal size was surprising even to those who knew that Dr. Dorrance was almost sole-owner of one of the most famed of advertised articles. But it presented a casebook example of what every able banker knows, viz.: that greatest modern fortunes are made not by promotive spurts and manipulations, but by continuous manufacture and trade...
...diplomatic atmosphere of foreign legations, entered the Foreign Office in 1909, later served in Embassies at Madrid and Constantinople. He married (1913) Authoress Victoria Sackville-West (TIME, Sept. 1). They have two sons. Egregious among present biographers, historians, he has a style polite, accurate, ironic, never loud. Viz: "Mr. Henry White, the United States representative was conciliatory, ignorant and charming...
...years an author, a barrister and an educator have run a close race for Longest Paragraph in Who's Who. In 1928 Barrister Samuel Untermyer with his train of legal cases (viz., "successfully carried through the merger of the Utah Copper Co., with the Boston Consolidated and the Nev. Con. Cos., representing a market value of $100,000,000, for which was paid a lawyer's fee of $750,000;") held a narrow lead with 99 lines. Two thin lines behind, bolstered by 29 academic degrees and memberships in 86 associations, boards, clubs, colleges, congresses, leagues, societies, orders, ran Educator...