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...biological litterateur, expressed (in picturesque terms) the well known fact that the strength of an organism is not constant with its bulk. Said he: "A mouse can fall down a mine shaft a third of a mile deep without injury. A rat falling the same distance would break his bones; a man would simply splash . . . Elephants have their legs thickened to an extent that seems disproportionate to us, but this is necessary if their unwieldly bulk is to be moved at all ... A 60-ft. man would weigh 1000 times as much as a normal man, but his thigh bone...
...paring the budget down to $3,080,000,000, Director Lord had planned a cut of $20,000,000 for the War Department. A number of Senators voiced a belief that this would be going too far, that military appropriations had already been cut to the bone. For the present year, the appropriation is $341,000,000, of which $262,000,000 is strictly military, $70,000,000 is for rivers and harbors and nearly $9,000,000 for the Panama Canal. If the cut comes out of Rivers and Harbors, many hankerers after local improvements must go unsatisfied...
...said a black cat's- / mean bone. I swear to God my man's got a black...
...bone- Every time I start to leave I gotta come...
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