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Paper-towel racks? Sinks? Shouldn't nature remain the uncoziest of places? Not anymore. The point of all this paraphernalia, says Michael Hodgeson, editor of the trade publication Outdoor Retailer, "is to take the indoors outdoors and add a little cush to the hard edge of the wilderness." Add a little cush and, some would argue, take away...
From Khartoum to Aswan, the Nile runs through bleak desert. This is Nubia, the land of the Cush, of the mud-building Fung people, of temples and heat, where the Nile hurriedly bears its load of diluted loam over transverse ribs of crystalline rock, granite and diorite-the Six Cataracts. Below the Second Cataract, it skids through a 100-mile chute, the Batn el Hagar (Belly of Stones), studded with gleaming black islets. Then below Aswan it enters the Egypt of antiquity. Here the neolithic men of North Africa gathered as the grassy Saharan plains dried up into desert following...
With all depleted on account of hour exams, Lowell extended its string of wins to six yesterday afternoon, defeating Claverly on a pass from Bill Murphy to "Cush" Eels in the second quarter, while Kirkland once again hit the victory trail in setting back the second Freshmen 6 to 0 as Willy Cleveland swept around right end for the only score of the contest...
...Bellboys met some unexpected opposition from the Clippers who put up a game fight throughout the contest. In the second quarter, however, the Claverly defense weakened just long enough to permit Bill Murphy to heave the winning points on a touchdown pass to right end "Cush" Eels. On the first play of the game, Eels dislocated a finger on his right hand but remained silent and continued the game. When he snagged the serial from Murphy, he was forced to use his arms in bringing the ball down, but he held on to it and chalked up another victory...
Musing on fighting words that could be and had been legally sent through the mails. General Hugh Samuel Johnson, himself no tyro at invective and abuse, suggested a few more: '"asymptote" ("a daisy of a word"), "parasang," "Cush-ping Dishpit." ("an evil sound and no meaning"), "yellow-bellied sap-sucker," "boat-bottomed grackel." "bottle-nosed puffin...