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...light, it will be pushed farther and farther from the sun in wider and wider orbits. Eventually it will reach the orbits of Mars or the outer planets and can take a look at them. A fragile space sailer could not land on any planet; even a brush with the fringe of an atmosphere would destroy the sail. But it could be maneuvered to approach smaller bodies in space that have no atmosphere...
Until the day they left, the G.I.s kept visiting the Umekis with presents-bacon, shaving cream, hair oil. Miyoshi put the hair oil on her face and tried to brush her teeth with the shaving cream, but she knew a gift when...
...sandpaper. Named Steelie, the new sander uses etched and hardened carbon-steel sheets in rough and smooth finishes for the abrasive. Since the sanding surface is an integral part of the steel, it wears longer than sandpaper or other sanders with affixed abrasives, can be cleaned with a stiff brush or solvent. Price...
Kinko Riding a Carp is a reversal of that gesture-not reality drowned but imagination borne upon the stream. The energy of Korin's brush reflects the lightning lift and speed of human imagination, which is capable of almost anything, even of riding on the back of a fish. His art also mirrors Taoist thought, which regards "everything as destroyed and everything as in completion . . . reaching security through chaos.'' Asked where he had got this idea, the sage Nu Yu replied: "I learned it from the Son of Ink. The Son of Ink learned it from...
Graham was a shade too fatherly, Sheilah implies, to be fully satisfactory as a mate, but he did replace the U-brush with some H's and cured her of saying "Oo-er! Wot an 'at!" After that it was onward and upward-showgirl with C. B. Cochran and Noel Coward, playgirl with palace guardsmen and aristocrats. Trouble was that along with a pseudonym, the ex-Lily had concocted a sort of pseudo-family tree and she never knew when someone was going to cry, "Timber!" In 1933, she decided the U.S. was the best place...