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...ship's deck is a hinged periscope which will yield if struck by a cake of ice. Close by is a flexible trolley to indicate the undersurface irregularities of the ice. Much more important are other outside devices: a conning tower surmounted by a circular saw capable of cutting through 13 ft. of ice; and two thin tubes which, in case the boat is frozen under deep ice, can drill upward 100 ft. to air. Simon Lake, submarine inventor of Stratford, Conn, designed all these devices...
...young girl she had begun to write verse, which occasionally sold. After her marriage, to earn more money, she tried her hand at writing stories, sold her first one to Munsey's Magazine. Editor Bob Davis took an interest in her, encouraged her to keep on. The Circular Staircase, intended as a satire on crime stories, made a big hit as a bona fide thriller, and from then on Mary Roberts Rinehart's reputation increased steadily, also the size of her checks...
...present system of censorship around Boston seems to be one of veiled hints and circular letters sent out by a committee which advises but does not demand that certain books be removed from sale. This discreet method would indicate that perhaps the censors are aware of the force of public opinion on these questions. Nevertheless such comparatively innocuous books as "Harriet Hume" by Rebecca West and Michael Ossorgin's "Quiet Street" have been handled rather gingerly by some booksellers within the past year. Such dictatorial acts as the suppression of the numbers of Scribners containing certain installments of "A Farewell...
...circular telegram from Moscow, relayed throughout a local district from the city of Yelan, ended as follows when it reached the village of Inokovka: KEEP READY 13,530 SPARROWS...
...Church, last week gazed at His Holiness, he blessed them again, patted them. Thereupon they were led away to be coddled and permitted to lie asleep in laps of legends old until Easter. Then they would be shorn and killed. Their white wool will be woven into pallia, the circular bands two inches wide with two twelve-inch pendants, which the Pope gives to patriarchs, primates, archbishops...