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...Taking off overweight for nearly every flight because she was invariably loaded down with extra equipment for all manner of experiments, notably: first launching of a glider from an airship; first hook-on of an airplane in flight; first radio reception of map facsimiles in flight; first test of an echo altimeter; first "narrowcasting" of voice on a light beam; tests of scores of navigation devices...
...Freckled Beach," and the even more famous "Lines to My Lover in Hell." When Halcyon's father, a hearty retired sea-captain, comes after her he is forced to wait with a delegation of Halcyon's admirers in the anteroom. He determines by hook or crook to get her out of that, takes her off with him to England...
...were in the midst of an emergency. Our house was on fire and we could not stop to dispute over the brand on the hook & ladder. Though the Fire Chief was known to be vacillating, uncertain, timid and afraid of the smoke and flames, we have tried to make the best of it and get along with him until we can secure a better one which we expect to do March...
...furor came Star Reporter Manfred B. Tate who was addicted to smoking a corncob pipe in hotel dining rooms, served no masters, feared no groups. Reporter Tate sailed right in, investigated along his own peculiar line. When he reached the end of that line he found a very peculiar hook, with a very peculiar catch, which caused two more...
...annotated with incidents from Author Ray Bergman's copious fishing notebooks. Unlike most expert anglers. Author Bergman considers worm-fishing for trout permissible, particularly ! for beginners. He starts his book with a chapter telling how to do it. An expert worm fisherman told him how to bait the hook: " 'Catch hold of the skin at two places . . . so the ends will wiggle. Some fellers claim that the point of the hook showin' scares the fish but that's all wrong.'. . ." When a trout bites, " 'lower the tip of the pole a minute. . . . Now lift...