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...enable the vessel to skid against the under side of polar ice. From the blunt, concrete-reinforced bow projects a long tubular feeler like the solitary tusk of the male narwhal. If under the dark ice the ship strikes an object (whale, rock, island, berg) which its great sub- aqueous searchlights do not disclose, the projecting feeler will ram back against compressed air and so absorb most of the shock. Since the boat will cruise at 3 knots during the 3,000 mi. under ice course of its Arctic journey, the danger of concussions is slight...
...subtle aqueous world, mid distant skies...
...crack their cheeks, whether rain spouts or fire spits there is a Jubilee, accompanied by juvenile jubilancy. As this paper goes to press the prospects are equally auspicious for drenching showers or those sunbeams whose absence have for a month made Cambridge merely a temporary precipitation in an aqueous solution. Therefore the wise Freshman will be prepared to don anything from the flannels to the security of oilskins...
...Daily Life. The Communist regime has now attained a complete stability, and in consequence an orderly routine of life is vouchsafed to all classes. Such cultural diversions as the theatre, the opera and the ballet are taking their normal course. Transportation is obtainable by all the usual means: terrestrial, aqueous, aerial. The shops are open and well stocked, but the price of manufactured goods is still exorbitant...
...great watersheds of Europe foamed and thundered with torrents of melting snow, which ordinarily pass harmlessly away during the long European spring. Telegraphers, working night and day over the few lines that were not down, flooded the dry portions of the earth with news of the aqueous catastrophe...