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...since 1889. when a tidal wave swashed shipping against the wooded mountains, has Apia Harbor. Samoan Islands, been so aghast as last week. Although it was a damp, warm day of Capricorn summer, a breeze rumpled the thick greenery around Apia. At anchor rode the brigantine-rigged wooden yacht Carnegie. Built in 1909 to study all the things that the Carnegie Institute thinks man should know about the sea, the Carnegie was made a unique ship: not an ounce of magnetic material in her hull or aboard her. Even her 150-h. p. auxiliary motor was built of nonmagnetic stuff...
...connection, the noise of the storm, caused radio broadcasters to believe that the child was a son. Gaily they announced the fact. In distant Japanese villages bonfires were set alight, barelegged, short-jacketed watchmen ran through the streets beating gongs. It was hours before the true facts were learned. Aghast at the error all the officers of Tokyo's central broadcasting station resigned, grimly realized that it was their traditional duty to commit harikari...
George Young, British Labor Member of Parliament, said: "I am aghast at realizing how far and how fast the American and British ships of state have since the war come athwart each other's course and are today heading for a collision...
...Aghast at the price rumor was Godfrey Locker-Lampson, M. P., Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the recently-ousted Baldwin Cabinet. His family had long owned the bust. He had lately sold it to a dealer for "just over $2,500." Said he: ''The firm . . . resold it, I understand, for a modest profit...
...Bognor village a carpenter stood tip-toe on the counter of a toyshop, nailing shelves to the wall. Glancing casually down under his arm, he was aghast to see his Queen. Her Majesty had just entered with Princess Mary in search of gifts for a charity bazaar. The carpenter, anxious to show respect, tried to doff his cap, but only succeeded in knocking it off. Grabbing for it, he dropped his hammer. The hammer struck his saw, lying on a board, and all crashed to the floor with a great clatter of ironmongery. In an agony of mortification, the carpenter...