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...Howth Castle and Environs"-a reference, on one level, to the Liffey, which runs past Adam and Eve's Church and Howth Castle in Dublin, and, on another level, to the beginning of mankind's story. And the reader will be wiser when he reaches the end: "Whish! A gull. Gulls. Far calls. Coming, far! End here Us then. Finn, again...
...Whish! Whish! The starter's flag fluttered, 33 snub-snouted racers gunned past the grandstand-and Jones was in the lead, whirling round and round, averaging a blazing 150 m.p.h. By the 24th lap, he was already lapping stragglers. On the 64th lap, he pulled into the pits, picked up three new tires (the left front tire was still unworn) and a tank of methanol-all in 25.1 sec. But whish! whish!, there went the Lotuses. Short as it was, Jones's pit stop had cost him the lead. After 75 laps, Clark and Gurney were...
...editorial board, for example, asks only that you write three somethings a week, whish is not, you may be sure, much of a strain. To quote Cardinal Richelieu (a sort of 17th Century F.A. Lindermann): "Even the siege of La Rochelle was not much of a strain." In the greater days of Crimson history, when men were men and candidates indescribable, editors demanded two editorials each night. We are milksops now, perhaps, but we have become human beings...
...T.S.E. plan, by whish over 175 upperclassmen have annually earned enough to cover all or part of their board, will be greatly curtailed by lack of funds, Dean Hanford revealed, in pointing out reasons for the move. Established in 1932 as the substitute for student waiting recommended by the Student Council at that time, the T.S.E. plan has been financed by the surplus from the dining halls, which no longer exists...
...that year was Leadville, Colorado, at an altitude of 10,000 to 14,000 feet. The following summer the scene of activity was shifted to the Panama Canal Zone, where conditions of high temperature and great humidity prevail. This year Boulder City was chosen because of the high temperatures whish had been reported there the are the humidity, and the led opportunity for studying the effect of these conditions on the workmen assembled at Hoover...