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...what it costs it, moment by moment, to accommodate itself to this residence, how much writhing and bending, folding and pleating are required of it? It was not made to live inside a thing; if it does so, under pressure of necessity, there is not a single element of its nature to which violence is not done...
Much of this criticism of the Navy way, of the "trade school" graduates and the system of rank and promotions, has been brewing for a year or two among a certain element of disgruntled and "sour grapes" Naval Reserve officers who never really were officers in any respect except their uniforms...
...like the rest of today's Navy, she was far from fit to fight. She lacked one essential element which no shipfitter could install: skilled manpower...
...unusual feature of "Dream Girl" is its free treatment of the time element. Although it proceeds chronologically, hours sometimes pass in the course of a few minutes. Rice doesn't try to account for every second, and the swift-moving hours give the play a streamlined effect...
Eventually the chemists learned so much about plutonium that they decided to use their new techniques in looking for it in nature. In pitchblende, that mineral Pandora's box of exploding elements, they found unmistakable traces: one part in 100,000,000,000,000. This was the first time that the discovery of a man-made element had led to its identification in a natural...