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...Then he must have been-if he existed-a feeding baby!) By that scale you may see the augmentation of all this. Tropical temperament is very appassionate and in both ways they do politics with ardour. Do you know that actual oppositionists to government use to blow off with bombs concealed in automobiles etc. innocent citizens? Do you know that a poor woman was passing by a street with her two years baby by the hand when a bomb exploded and turned the baby into pieces? Do you know that often bombs explode inside theatres hurting the public? That...
...train could get to the Chicago exposition before its end, she might well blow a salute to an old steam locomotive chuffing around the neighborhood. Old No. 999, the New York Central engine, which put thrills into the melodramas of the 1890's, in 1893 attained a record of 112½ m.p.h. for 1 mi. at Cuttenden, near Buffalo, N. Y.∙ Her engineer on that run, Charlie Hogan of Buffalo, was again at her old throttle last week...
Bolivia's reply to that was a threat to blow Paraguay's capital, Asuncion...
...payments of property owners. Leader Fewkes and a committee gained access to the bank's President Holman Pettibone. Meanwhile the teachers were trying to swarm upstairs past the guards. A policeman flourished his night stick. A teacher named Ted Farrington ducked, took a resounding blow on the neck instead of the head. He toppled and the crowd surged up to mob the guards. Women screamed, fainted. Windows crashed. Teachers hurled school books. A second teacher was supposed to have been clubbed in the mêlée. Outside the bank a larger crowd grew restless; excited male teachers...
Turbulence. Meteorological balloons, Professor Auguste Piccard's two stratospheric excursions, and high-drifting, icy cirrus clouds indicate that above ten miles winds blow steadily. Experts have been unable to sight any high-floating dust or haze to indicate any contrary condition. They therefore have predicted that if & when man can fly through the stratosphere, his going would be smooth as well as swift. Last week Dr. Charles Pollard Olivier, University of Pennsylvania astronomer, knocked this idea higher than...