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...crowd on Mitchel Field, Long Island, watched a covey of 16 airplanes, some big, some small, all noisy, whirl once around the flying field and diminish until they were no more than a dash of black pepper on the horizon. The planes in that covey were the entrants in the first race of the Mitchel Field Airplane Tournament...
...Marriage Whirl. Corinne Griffith has, taken so many thousands on the barb of her attraction that it is doubtless idle to intimate that this adventure is one of the worst of photoplays. It is a story of the younger generation, married and very fond of gin. Great parties in expensive country houses and great scowls on the faces of the stern fathers. Nita Naldi, slimmer these days, is very wicked...
...last letter I told you about an eccentric group of Satellites here at Dravrah whose sufficient reason for embracing every new doctrine that comes along is simply "Why not?" Since that disappointing experience I have been in the midst of a mad whirl that has distracted me without giving any clue to the riddle I am trying to solve. My observation convinces me that in spite of all their pother and noisy activity, few of these young men really know what they are about. Their universal rule seems to be: "Do something. Get busy Fill the hour. Make every minute...
...ascended to a height of 3,000 feet in a bombing plane, leaped out with closed parachutes. A large crowd had gathered below. This crowd saw the two begin their plunge, waited to see them open their parachutes. After descending a short distance, however, the men began to twist, whirl, somersault. Screams of horror went up from the onlookers. Rushing to the spot where the two would fall, these spectators found the courageous corporal, the intrepid sergeant. They were unhurt. When they had fallen 1,000 feet, they had pulled the ripcords of their parachutes, descended easily. Both said that...
...student caught up in the wild whirl of activity before he becomes conscious of his own individuality these words come as a shock--and more shocking because true: "Practically incessant activity with little opportunity for reflection is of at least debatable value for the average student." And for the potential creative artist? "Is it reasonable to expect Creative Genius to germinate, take root, unfold the buds--to develop steadily, surely--in such soil, such atmosphere?" With anguish the student must realize that his four years at college are not favorable--even hostile--to what true genius lies latent...