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...moment later he saw that it was no small boat, but a submarine. The steamer quivered. She had run on the port side of the submarine just forward of the conning tower and had stove a deep hole into the undersea ship...
...there was a casualty. Prince Henry, third son of the royal house, galloping at the head of his company of Mercian Hussars fetlock deep in mud, dawn a country road, was caught in the open by advancing Wessex tanks, spitting death from their three-pound guns. He dismounted and stood grinning by the roadside in his steel helmet, crying: "I guess we're out of action!" even before the umpires wrote him down as "killed in the field of battle...
DAVID GOES VOYAGING-David Binney Putnam-Putnam ($1.50). Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were "made-up" boys. David Putnam is a real one, aged 12, and besides he went thousands of miles on the ocean (with Deep-Sea-Explorer William Beebe, to Panama and the Galapagos Island) and had a lot of modern tackle and interested grown-ups to fish with and collect birds' eggs, turtles, lizards, bugs, beetles and even scorpions. He saw sharks and devilfish, albatrosses and penguins, sea lions and octopuses. He helped dig buried treasure and played pirate on desert islands at the Equator...
...bird sanctuary are worthless for agricultural purposes. To attempt to cut up the Big Cypress Swamp, for instance, would be like turning the Yosemite into an onion garden or Yellowstone Park into a factory town." She advocated, as wardens of such a preserve, the Seminole Indians! "They have a deep sense of the sanctity of an obligation...
...structure has the same width as the old, but its depth is more than doubled as it extends as far back as Palmer Street. An impression of greater width is created by a large vestibule 25 feet deep, faced with bronze and flanked by large show windows. Throughout the store, the problem of display has been given increased attention. On both sides of the interior display cases extend from the front of the store to the rear...