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...lands, Antarctica is coldest, windiest, most mountainous, most inaccessible. It is almost entirely unmapped. The nearest human habitation is over 1,000 miles distant...
...Dominions cannot rest on agriculture alone, nor do all these going out from England want to do agricultural work. . . . The spirit of pioneering in other lines must be encouraged." When Pigfancier Baldwin's emotional appeal had received a thorough scanning in Australia, Planefancier Bruce declared with coldest logic: "I unhesitatingly reaffirm my great desire for an ever increasing flow of British people into Australia, but the flow must be conditioned upon its quality and upon our power of absorption. . . . Australia is not going to undermine her national health by lowering the standards of fitness of immigrants. . . ." Loyal citizens...
...millions of tons annually from furnaces to carburetors. To supply France with synthetic gasoline by the Audibert process would require three or four million tons of coal per annum, All this would have to be imported as France has not enough coal as it is. In terms of coldest economy, the logical way for France to deal with her able son's discovery seemed to be to divulge it to one of the biggest coal-producing nations-the U. S., China, Germany-thus drive down the price of natural petroleum and import that as before...
...intensely admired technique was this: with his stentorian auctioneer's voice he would bellow, snort and puff and a draw a crowd; well observed, he then swooped a blanket over his head, writhed, snored, groaned, popped forth drenched with sweat (even "on the coldest day") and cried out fresh news from Allah. Frantic scribes would hasten to scrawl his syllables, whether intelligible or not, upon palm leaves, leather, stones, bones, or the breasts of bystanders. Each utterance was a sura (verse); the collection became the Koran, a marvelous conglomeration of divine edicts, personal justifications of and promises to Mohammed...
...coldest, the shiniest audience in the land...