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...again. Accompanied by a tug which contained, among others, Rival Harrison, she took off for Dover in the bright morning. Six hours after her start she was only nine miles from the pale cliffs. But against her, also, the tide turned; the undertow clutched at her thighs; the chill of the seas began to penetrate her courage. Once she was 1¼% miles from shore-the nearest that any woman has come to achieving the exploit, but at length, unable to make progress, she was picked up, and her tug chugged back toward France...
...chill westerly wind and heavy rain ?bleak January weather, according to the notions of the Northern Hemisphere ?prevailed one fine July morning as the U. S. fleet in two detachments approached the harbors of Sydney, New South Wales, and Melbourne, Victoria...
...anomalous that the pedagogs now swelter on hot June days in gowns that their clerical predecessors wore for warmth in the chill Middle Ages. Down the back of the agnostic philosopher hangs a cowl that the friar invented to warm his ears after paternosters...
Stooping among his instruments in a lonely observatory at Juvisy, France, Camille Flammarion, 83, famed French astronomer, felt a chill in his side, slipped to the floor. Many hours later, footsteps rang on the stone stairway. The servant who entered found Flammarion where he had fallen. One arm was twisted under his body. His face, scribbled with an extraordinary network of fine lines, was curiously dis- ordered under the bush of his white hair. He was dead. When Camille Flammarion was 9, he saw an eclipse. It was not the spectacle of the little moon lying like a black penny...
...Mowbray, as heretofore mentioned, had the difficult and important part of Lopez. He might easily have spoiled the entire production by smoking one cigarette too few or taking one too many mouth fulls of chill con carne. As it was however, he carried things off splendidly and even spoke a little excellent Spanish. Of course this Department doesn't know any more about Spanish than the man in the moon, but it has its own ideas about recognizing it. As long as an actor can keep going at the rate of a hundred words a second, without using too much...