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After four days. Meek marched his prisoner out to the bank, forced him to withdraw $10,000. Afterwards they went into a gun shop, where Meek made Wood buy a new revolver. Returning to the apartment, they passed through crowded, bustling Crystal Palace Market. Meek decided he wanted to eat some walnuts, went with his prisoner into a shop to buy them. When he stepped up to the counter. Wood spied a policeman. Suddenly nerved, he cried: "Look out, that man has a gun!" and started to run. Meek wheeled around, fatally wounded the policeman in the chest, then backed...
...House she sold its original 750 broad-bottomed hickory chairs for $100 apiece, formed the Central City Opera House Association. Denver socialites got down on their hands & knees to scrub the floors, chip away caked dirt. Artist Allen Tupper True restored the murals and ceiling. Somebody contributed a new crystal chandelier. Last year Denverites trooped into the opera house for the first festival: a revival of oldtime Camllle, played by woebegone Lillian Gish staged by Designer Robert Edmond Jones (TIME, Aug. 1, 1932). Last week the play was The Merry Widow with Austrian Composer Franz Lehar's nostalgic score...
...night before the Vagabond had lived again in Attica through Gulick's book, and walked in a shining white cloth over the Athenian hills one crystal spring morning down to the blue-girt Piraeus. Five o'clock that morning through the windows of the Waldorf he had seen dawn steal down Massachusetts Avenue like a great gray cat, tail between its legs...
Like other groups, Spiritualists are incorporated where state laws require it. Hence they may perform religious marriage ceremonies (which do not differ from those of other Christian sects). Spiritualists resent being classed with fortune-tellers and crystal-gazers (while professional magicians delight thus to classify them). Church services are usually on Sunday night, with hymn-singing, invocation, Bible-reading, lecture and-central feature which Spiritualists regard as their "Communion"-a séance. With the minister or a visiting medium officiating, messages are received from the other world. The congregation may applaud, chat. Cheeriness is the note...
...strike at cold. Professor Giauque used gadolinium sulfate octahydrate, a colorless crystal substance derived from a rare earth metal. This he cooled to about -306.4° F., when he began wrenching the molecules with a huge magnet which University of California owns. Liquid helium absorbed and withdrew the magnetically generated heat. At -459.1° Professor Giauque was stopped, regretting that he could not stride the stupendously difficult little step of .3° which would carry him to Absolute Zero where substances should retain no more heat, where molecular activity should completely cease. where all things should be coldly inert...