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...medical plant, and also, their very substantial appropriation; towards the maintenance of Meharry Medical College annually, over a period of many years, we simply could not have kept open, this, the only medical college for the training of Negro youth in the vast area west of the Allegheny Mountains and south of the Mason and Dixon Line...
...late 20s, Harvard Dental School, class of '29, went out to Australia on graduation, had a hard time fighting the Depression in Perth. Then, on pure nerve, he pushed up into the appalling open spaces of Northwestern Australia. Today he is the only dentist in an area stretching 1,000 mi. along the coast of the Indian Ocean and 400 mi. inland-a region the size of California and Texas combined-with a white population of perhaps 3,000 people...
...lamp, equipped with a reflector, at the side to direct boats to the quarter-deck sea-ladder. The light was 20 ft. above the water line, and pointed directly downward. At least two dozen flying fish of lengths varying from 18 to 24 in. were attracted to this lighted area. At intervals one or two seals came alongside, either in search of a meal, or else to play and sport with the fish. The weather was flat calm- no wind, water motionless, with barely perceptible swells. When swimming easily-not excited-the flying fish used their wings, not so much...
...exactly as described by Geologist Troxell. This flight ended in a glide with tail touching in a swimming motion several yards before the fish plopped down and submerged. In landing from all flights the tail touches first. When making a maximum-speed, straightaway, low-altitude run from a danger area the speed achieved is apparently in excess of 30 knots...
...which he planned to refuel in midair, thus tripling his range and obviating many landings in Alaskan mud, on ice hummocks or through fog, all deadly Arctic dangers. For 17 days, parka clad and living on seal meat and 18-month old eggs, Jimmie Mattern scoured the seacoast, the area flanking the 48th meridian and Alaska's mountainous interior. Because his refueling plane crashed just before reaching its destination he had to make the hazardous take-offs and landings he dreaded. Of the lost Russians not a trace was found...