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...Everybody comes to talk to us. It's quite different from the University of Stockholm, we don't have any college system there, we're more like graduate students. You get your assignment and then you run away with it and worry it around like a dog with a bone...
...name Question Mark took off and began swinging in lazy circles over Southern California. Every few hours, night & day, a second plane rose up, jockeyed a hose into position on the droning Fokker, poured gas into its thirsty tanks. After six days, the Fokker glided back to earth. Its bone-tired pilots, among them a stocky, ruddy-skinned Army lieutenant named Elwood Richard Quesada, * had just hung up a world's endurance record...
Three water exchanges will spread the benefit of the Klamath water. About 100,000 acre-feet of it can take care of farmers with claims on the American River. Then some of the American's upper tributaries can be used for irrigation in bone-dry Nevada...
...example," he told them, "you will have to be wise in sniffing, smelling, and estimating these fine and meaty books; swiftness in the chase and boldness in the attack are what is called for; after which, by careful reading and frequent meditation, you should break the bone and suck the substantific marrow...
...plucky young'un. Once when she was screaming and we tried to quiet her, she said: 'I wouldn't cry so, if you didn't hurt me.'" Even so, one man had to hold her legs and another her head. Dr. Shultz cleaned the bone fragments and put them back, sewed up the wound and gave Sara 250 cc of plasma. A mattress was slipped between Sara and the table, and she slept soundly...