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...Europe." He has no temporal power of office, but he has a real temporal as well as spiritual power of personality and of scholarship which has been felt throughout a considerable stretch of the earth almost as wide as the reach of his Viking forebears, who penetrated not only westward to the edges of America but eastward and southward to the further shores of the Euxine...
Hollywood rattles along about the difficulties of breaking into the movies. Venturing westward to this cinema Constantinople comes a young and beautiful maiden (shot of a young and beautiful maiden wandering past "Pickfair," the Pickford-Fairbanks residence, with Doug and Mary chatting on the porch). She drifts into Hollywood hotels (shot of Charlie Chaplin buying a cigar). She tries to get a job (shots of William S. Hart, Pola Negri, Thomas Meighan, Bryant Washburn...
...received a telegram from Commissioner Haynes that the United States Public Health Service would issue medicinal liquor permits to such ships on the assumption that since the liquor was legally required it was medicinal. Contradictory reports were issued in Washington. British steamships, it was announced, will sail westward henceforward with only half their ordinary cargo of liquors, which will all be disposed of before reaching the threemile limit. A half cargo of liquor for the Majestic, for example, consists of 30,000 bottles of ale, 675 quarts of champagne, 375 quarts of wine, 1,500 bottles of whisky, brandy...
...westward swing the course will lead through Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Cleveland, Akron, Toledo, Columbus, Dayton, and Cincinnati, to Chicago where the party will arrive on June 30 and will remain for several days, including July 4. The factories which will be studied during this part of the trip will include those of the Ontario Power Company, the Shredded. Wheat Company, the Lackawanna Steel Company, the White Motor Company, the Goodyear and Goodrich Rubber Companies, the Toledo Ship Building Company, the National Cash Register Company, and the Procter and Gamble Company. While in Chicago the group will visit the stockyards...
This craze for temporal economy is reminiscent of a certain thrifty emulator of Phineas Fogg. Obsessed with the desire to store up time, he spent his life travelling westward, gaining a day on each trip around the world. When he died, it was computed that he had "saved" several months. Nothing is said of the years of effort wasted in his pilgrimage, or of his failure to benefit anyone except the transportation companies...