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...pound demolition bomb, carried by a Handley Page aeroplane, illustrated the power of the new weapon. Released from midair, the bomb buried itself in compact, sandy soil. A moment later the explosion threw soil almost 1,000 feet into the air and left a crater 19 feet deep, 64 feet in diameter. One thousand cubic yards of earth had been displaced...
There lies deep in Mme. Walska McCormick's soul an impassioned desire to sing successfully in opera. To achieve this desire she has waged a prodigious battle. She has had failure after failure on the operatic stage; yet she has persisted, and has set an unusually strong and tenacious will to gain her ambition, until the question has been raised on all sides: Has Ganna Walska a voice? The critics have replied again and again: Mme. Walska has no voice. She has some pretty but very small tones in her lower voice, good enough for small parlor singing...
...Lars Edling, Swedish radiologist, conceded that in many phases of radiological progress, notably in the production of high-voltage deep- therapy apparatus, America leads the world...
...issue of the League of Nations is as dead as slavery. Is it not the part of wisdom ... to let it rest in the deep grave." (This called forth a telegram of protest from the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association, signed by George W. Wickersham, Everett Colby, and others...
...There is Mr. Ford, whose colossal knowledge, whose range of reading, deep fund of historical research are hidden from the world because he has no love of display. I venture to say that if Mr. Ford was placed on the witness stand and required under oath to give a fifty-word biography of Benedict Arnold he would remain mute. Rather than appear learned or highbrow he would affect ignorance. It is the nature...