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Pittsburgh officials, frightened at the appearance of rabies in their district, have devised an efficient method of killing stray dogs. Three motorized wagons patrol the streets. Each wagon has an air-tight box into which the poisonous exhaust gases of the motor enter. Whenever the dog-catcher on the driver's seat sights an unmuzzled dog unattended by a human, he tries to snare it. If he does catch the dog, he heaves it into the suffocating box and soon the live dog is a dead...
...Swedenborgians. As everyone knows, Emanuel Swedenborg (originally Swedberg; 1688-1772) was one of the most original geniuses in history. He dealt capably and creatively with poetry, history, philosophy, art, geology, mathematics, astronomy (nebular hypothesis), crystallography, anatomy (texts on blood, brain and nerves); conceived an air-tight stove, a musical instrument, a submarine, a "mechanical carriage," a means of testing boats by models, a dock system, an air gun, a method of hydraulics. The last 28 years of his long life he turned to speculation on the human spirit, organized a code of conduct, pictured a continuous existence for the soul...
Colebrook is Air-Tight...
...nothing sound like something, said he: "If the facts warrant, I am willing to be as reactionary as the Czar of Russia on Monday, or as radical as Leon Trotzky on Tuesday. ... I feel the only person worth bothering about is a Realist. [Conservatism, liberalism and radicalism are] three air-tight and often thought-tight compartments. . . . We park ourselves behind these barricades and begin to approach things in terms of emotion...
...three more, but he let down the Normal School batters with five hits and three runs. Coach Lake's batters went on a rampage with their bats, collecting 17 hits. Cordingley retired 11 men via the strike-out route and after the first inning, the Seconds played an almost air-tight game in the field...