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...Nobody Knows . . ." The Friend observatory is as practical as any backyard astronomer could wish. The supporting base is a perpendicular concrete column, 16 feet long, anchored in bedrock eight feet below the surface on the highest hill of the orange grove. To this block is bolted the large telescope - a 16-in. reflector in a 12-ft. galvanized iron tube. On the lower side are ascension and declination meters and counterbalance weights. The observatory is roofless. A square wooden platform provides working space. The lenses were ground in a small Escondido garage-workshop...
...This is a marine biological station with her history of over 60 years; If you are from the Eastern Coast, some of you might know Woods Hole or Mt. Desert or Tortugas; If you are from the West Coast you may know Pacific Grove or Puget Sound Biological Station; This place is a place like one of these: Take care of this place . . . save the civil equipments for Japanese students; When you are through with your job here, notify the University and let us come back to our scientific home...
...When he was 13 Bummy got a better job, as bartender in a speakeasy. A little later he became a prize fighter at Ridgewood Grove, a dingy club behind the Myrtle Avenue car barns. As in his earlier endeavors, he was an instant success. He would battle a buzz saw. Also, he was one of the dirtiest fighters the ring ever produced, and thousands came to see what he would try next...
...last Japanese officers to surrender on Guam proved to be surprisingly well informed about world events for the ten months he had spent hiding in a palm-grove. It turned out he had been creeping up to the American lines at night and stealing copies of TIME'S Pony Edition from the Marines...
Prince Gallow rode through a magic wood hung with signs: "7 League Boots Now 6.98"; "Seek Grailo, Even Better Than the True Grail." Defying the "roaring . . . Tarcomed [and] the surly Nacilbuper" (The White Deer's proper nouns sometimes read best backwards). The Prince passed the Moaning Grove of Artanis and bested the famed Seven-headed Dragon. This wasn't really such a bold feat, because the Dragon ran by clockwork, and the Prince bribed the mechanic not to wind...