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Will TIME please explain, for the benefit of the unschooled, how infra-red rays, which are invisible, can aid fog beacons, airfield lights? (TIME, Sept...
...hired man falls in love with the lady he works for, but doesn't interrupt her wedding after all. A bitter woman sacrifices her secret formula for the best bread ever baked. A burglar willy-nilly witnesses a death scene, is converted by it, comes forward to explain, is arrested. An old man knows he is a burden, takes care that his suicide shall give as little trouble as possible. Zona Gale has seen through the salability of plot to the necessity of a story. Her prosy people are simplified into poetics...
Gules three stags caboched or, Crest: at the top of a tower argent, an arm and hand vested gules, cuffed argent, holding a tilting spear sable, pointing dexter." To decipher 'one might explain that "gules" means red, "vested" designates wearing, "sable" black, "caboched" showing the full face but nothing of the neck, and "dexter" right...
...Louis Star; Henry Carey, Philadelphia lawyer; Davis Quinn, Manhattan nature-lore writer. They prepared to make the meeting of the National Audubon Societies next week an explosive one by mailing to each director a copy of a pamphlet they had written: Compromised Conservation, Can the Audubon Society Explain? In it, they charged that under the direction of President Thomas Gilbert Pearson, who succeeded the upright Butcher, the Society has been shamefully catering to wealthy sportsmen and potent gun companies. They assert that President Pearson has in the name of Audubon* opposed a bill in Congress to form permanent bird refuges...
...city explain why this magnificent thoroughfare is as barren as a desert of trees, shrubbery, flowers or grass? With these embellishments Wilshire Boulevard would be without a rival among the capitals of the world. Is it the lack of water for irrigation purposes from which Los Angeles suffers that prevents greenery? In my admiration of this wonderful Boulevard I have often wondered why this absence of parking...