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As the pangs grew sharper, the sailors rigged a piece of canvas across the center of the boat, against the breaking waves. In the darkness Dr. Conly fumbled with the meager equipment of the lifeboat's first-aid kit-hemostats, scissors, gauze, iodine, aspirin, all drenched in salt water...
Once, putting to sea at dusk, they were spotted by a German priest; soon afterward, signal fires bloomed on the hills around them. Several times they fled from islands when reports were relayed that a Jap destroyer was approaching. They gave it the slip, only to be followed by another...
During these frantic maneuvers, the engineer came on deck smiling, because he was damn proud of his boys-the Filipinos in the engine room were sticking without a murmur, not even asking questions. Pokerfaced deckhands buckled on automatics and bolo knives. An hour later, saved by darkness, the deckhands "were...
> Hens lay 15 to 20% more eggs when they live on a 26-hour day (14 hours of light, alternating with twelve of darkness) in artificially illuminated henhouses, report scientists : Rutgers University and the University of Maryland. Reason: hens feel an urge to lay eggs at 26-hour intervals-at...
To the Kittredges all these problems were connected. They were alarmed to discover in rural Pendleton the same forces of darkness (chiefly businessmen, bankers and local newspaper publishers) that were defeating men of good will in Europe. The class struggle went on even in the haunts of coot and hern...