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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Granting the necessity of an open season on such players, there yet exists a certain lure in conversational bridge. A judicious phrase, a word here and there when not carried to the extreme of actual information, often turns a dull hand into a delightful bluff. A finesse is transformed from a mere mathematical chance to a palpitating affair of flesh and blood. While the game still retains its intelligent halo, the human factor which makes poker endurable is also added...
Under the heading of "Play Ball [TIME, Apr. 19, SPORT] you list the different National and American League baseball teams with their nicknames. You stated that the "Tygers" were the Detroit, American League team. The word "Tygers" should be spelled with an "i" instead of a "y." The Augusta, South Atlantic League team is known as the "Tygers," the main reason for this being in compliment to Mr. Ty Cobb of the Detroit team. Mr. Cobb got his early start in Augusta, and still maintains his residence here...
...refuse the Pulitzer Prize unless they want its administrators to become a supreme intellectual court, impossible to challenge, like the French Academy. Sophisticates perused these reasons and put on a wise air. "Very ingenious," they said, "but the real reason is . . ." And then they murmured that explanatory, vastly inclusive word, "publicity...
...beginning was the word and the word was 'reality'" is the new gospel preached by the Realty Research Society, Ichabod Babbit, President. "Man" says Mr. Babbit, "was an incident and woman a side issue. The beginning of the world was real estate with water thrown in as a chaser." Even nature has consistently dealt in real estate values, destroying and making properties with each successive geologic age. As for man, ever since the serpent advertised the apples of Eden and Noah obtained a monopoly of the ripuarian rights on the face of the globe, no movements of consequence have omitted...
Wilkins. After 13 ominous days without word from Captain Wilkins and Pilot Ben Eielson, the supporting party of the Detroit Arctic Expedition, at Fairbanks, finally picked up faint radio signals. It was Operator Waskey of the expedition's overland sledging party, calling from Point Barrow, which he had just reached by forced marches. Wilkins and Eielson were?the signals were very faint?were there, safe, in a fur-trader's comfortable cabin. They had reached Point Barrow the day of their last departure from Fairbanks, after a hairbreadth escape in the cloud-hung Endicott Mountains. Heavy-laden, the monoplane Alaskan...