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...frozen Arctic outpost is Hammerfest, but a thriving fishing village of 3,300 persons. Because the Gulf Stream curls across the Atlantic to flick the top tip of Scandinavia, Hammerfest's temperature is warm in summer, rarely gets below freezing even in midwinter, when there is no sun for nearly three months. In the summer, when the sun never sets from May 13 to July 29, remaining visible for 18 hours daily until autumn, there is a busy trade in fish, reindeer, eiderdown, fox pelts, whale oil. Occasionally a cruise ship on the way to bleak North Cape...
...through the ropes of Madison Square Garden's Long Island City ring and finally began to fight. Anxious to see whether McLarnin could preserve his record of never having lost a return bout to a fighter who had previously defeated him, a crowd of 25,000 watched Ross flick harmless, showy punches at McLarnin's left eye, while McLarnin waited for the chance, which Ross was too clever to give him, to use his devastating right hand. After fifteen brisk but ineffective rounds, Ross walked to his corner, Mc Larnin turned the handspring with which...
...With a flick of his tails, he stepped into the Ballroom. Past him foxtrotted five hundred League of Nation delegates, some tall, some ridiculously short; all jiggling merrily to a blaring cacophony from the room's far end. Seventy-five feminine representatives blossomed against the wall, some hiding their disappointment, with pale powdered smirks, other bolder ones occasionally stepping out to cut in on a dancing couple...
...making. Not that they are much given to Walkuere-Quite the reverse. But they are absolute in their own spheres, they have the prerogative, a sort of vail as compensation for the numerous inconveniences which they suffer in their office, of doing much as they please. They may flick cigarettes from the mouths of undergraduates who violate the no-smoking rules, or bash in the felt crown of impolite sophomores, with equal impunity. Of course, they run a risk of embarrassment in case they abuse their privileges. There is still extant a Professor who walked into the New Lecture Hall...
...opponent for the title she won a year ago was her close friend and houseguest, Helen ("Billie") Hicks. Still a little chagrined at failing to qualify for last year's cham- pionship, after winning the year before, Helen Hicks, swinging her driver with a masculine wrist-flick and punching out her irons like a pro, had beaten square-jawed Maureen Orcutt...