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Bremen Gaped. Above Bremen, Germany, an airplane was flying swiftly backward. Leslie Edgar Reed of the U. S. foreign service investigated, cabled the U. S. department of Commerce a description. The plane, thick-winged, carried its tail in front, preventing somersault after a bad landng...
...devil should you make your trip to France into a pilgrimage? A pilgrimage? That is the idea of our old civilizations, which are always looking backward, thinking about our traditions and our dead...
...Maurer: "I am favorably impressed. After hard experiences and many shocks, Russia is recovering under the present regime, which is introducing new methods to replace the extremely backward system of the old regime...
...signed that it would discriminate between ripe and unripe bolls. On the new machine, two arms reach out and gather in the spreading branches of the cotton bushes. Two vertical, revolving cylinders spined with close-set spindles, brush along the branches gently. The cylinders slide backwards horizontally on their bases at the same speed as the whole machine is moving forward. This saves the branches from being torn off the bushes. By the time the cylinders reach the end of the backward slide, their spindles have finished the task of combing all loose fibres off the branches...
...Mordance Hall lives Richard Pride, whose madness is living life over again, living it beside himself with audacious backward excursions into the lives of people he has known. This he does by the aid of drugs and a corps of skilled, secret investigators. In his sepulchral study, entombed by the inky transcripts of his assistants, he traces bizarre designs through the dead mold of past existence...