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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 745 words
  3. HUMAN ENDURANCE TESTS

    Explorers flying men, and other adventurers are all seeking to set up new records. Sportsmen and sportswomen are doing the same—and 30 is a horde of publicity seekers. But there is a limit—and those who pass it do so at peril of health and even life. ...

    Article : 1,109 words
  4. COWLEY'S EASY WIN IN COMO SWIM

    K. Cowley, the City swimmer, had an easy victory in the Swim Through Como this afternoon. Passing the beacon about a quarter of a mile from the finish he was well out from the field, and was certain of victory. He swam off the ...

    Article : 483 words
  5. READY FOR THE MARATHON SWIM.

    The 74 competitors who faced the starter at Canning Bridge today for the Swim through Como. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 30 words
  6. "THE GAP'S" GUARDIAN

    Charon ferried departed souls across the River Styx. Watson's Bay, just inside Sydney Harbor, near the Gap, has an ...

    Article : 545 words
  7. WOMAN'S PLACE

    The former Commissioner-General for Australia in the United States (Mr. Herbert Brookes), who returned to Melbourne recently with Mrs. Brookes, said ...

    Article : 626 words
  8. RIDERS OF THE "HORSE"

    Changes that are to be made at the Mansion House in the course of modernising its domestic and other accommodation will affect particularly the great ...

    Article : 380 words
  9. NEARLY A TRAGEDY

    During the race Miss C. Wright (May-lands) was seen to disappear and did not reappear. The Fifth Sea Scouts, who were patrolling the course, noticed the ...

    Article : 68 words
  10. M.P. "DEADHEADS"

    As an outcome of the Mardy Jones case proposals are being considered for the issue to members of the House of Commons of season tickets, with ...

    Article : 218 words
  11. METEOR CENSUS

    Brilliant showers of meteors within the next five years were forecast by completion of the 1930 November meteor census at the University of ...

    Article : 296 words
  12. A NICE DELIVERY

    Incident in the Perth v. King's Park match on the Perth Green. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 16 words
  13. ARTIFICIAL SILK

    The possibility of getting artificial silk from peat bogs at a lower cost than other artificial silks comes in a new mechanical and chemical process now ...

    Article : 194 words
  14. THAT WORD "UP"

    There is in the English language a little word of two letters, "up"— and it habitually indulges in the most extraordinary behavior (says the "Christian ...

    Article : 392 words
  15. THE HIMALAYAS

    Miss Jill Cossley-Batt, the woman explorer and scientist, will for the space of a year be the only woman in an tn the heart of the ...

    Article : 252 words
  16. SPELLING OF NAMES

    Once again the plea is made for a wider adoption of the revised spellings of foreign cities, rivers, provinces, and countries (says the "Christian Science ...

    Article : 504 words
  17. UNHEARD SOUNDS

    One of the most fascinatingly novel exhibitions ever held in London was opened in the new Empire Hall of Olympia, Kensington. W., recently by the Lord ...

    Article : 314 words
  18. HIS DYING SISTER

    As the result of a head-on collision between a motor-cycle combination and a motor car at Rumney, near Cardiff, recently, Patricia Farmer, aged 16 ...

    Article : 113 words
  19. AN AID FOR AIRMEN

    A new radio direction finder which can ba used in connection with any commercial broadcasting station has been successfully tested by radio experts ...

    Article : 189 words
  20. WORLD BROADCASTS FROM. RUSSIA

    According to the official "Izvestia," plans have been completed for the construction of powerful wireless stations in important centres in the component ...

    Article : 172 words
  21. EARLY NEWSPAPERS

    At Aix-la-Chapelle. according to the "Evening News," the largest collection of newspapers in the world has been made accessible to the public. It could ...

    Article : 141 words
  22. YOUTHS' VENTURE

    Two youths in a two-cylinder monoplane, Edward Wingerter of Newaik and Joseph L. Jones of Riveiside, Conn., set out recently, according to the "Christian ...

    Article : 92 words
  23. MAIL PLANE PASSENGERS

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 39 words
  24. Advertising

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