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...exceeds external water pressure, enables a diver to walk outdoors or an investigative Beebe to make comfortable, direct observations of fish life. The device can move a short distance by its own power. But ordinarily a mother ship will tow it to the site of diving operations, will there drag it over the bottom, supply air and electricity. Its maximum working depth...
...usually accused of snobbery. When Yale and Harvard first contemplated making that decision they were so accused. Such action, however, is not snobbery; it is merely the result of the university's realization that, beyond a certain number, men seeking employment from the institution they attend are a drag upon their associates and themselves...
Here the controversialists missed a point. The hounds Dean Bratenahl blessed scrambled off not after a fox but after a little scent bag in a drag hunt...
...there till the serfs of Odysseus had time to carry it off for manuring his broad acres. So lay Argos the hound, all shivering with dog-ticks. Yet the instant Odysseus approached, the beast knew him. He thumped his tail and drooped his ears forward, but lacked power to drag himself ever so little towards his master. However Odysseus saw him out of the corner of his eye and brushed away a tear. . . . He plunged into the house, going straight along the hall amidst the suitors; but Argos the dog went down into the blackness of death, that moment...
...parallel tracks. This would cost S. P. only $1,153,000 and would put F. & N. out of business. The "parallel track threat'' will never serve to arbitrate differences between major railroads, but railroadmen last week thought the I. C. C. had found a potent way to drag small railroads from holdout corners...