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From his cell, he tried to patent a method of catching fish by sucking them through seawater pumps directly into a ship, where they would be refrigerated by liquid air. His lawyer often found him standing before a window, holding up to the sun light a bowl of water containing a number of complicated thermometers. He would not say what these experiments were...
...aphid, feeding on leaf juices, secretes a sweet liquid called "honey-dew" to which ants are very partial. Some varie ties of ants keep herds of aphids, like cows, and milk them by stroking the abdomen gently with their antennae; a well-fed aphid may yield 48 drops of "milk...
Soon, France's Baltic garrisons were aquake with jitters, and the neutrals were agape with admiration. Influential Russian Countess Canerine, whose "dark and liquid eyes" burned with "consuming fire," decided that Hornblower's manly chest was the place for her "bosom white as snow." Prussian Strategist von Clausewitz deserted from Napoleon's Prussian army, and learned, from Hornblower, what strategy really meant. Sweden joined the Allies. Tsar Alexander was so encouraged that he sent Napoleon a rude letter - which, of course, resulted in the march on Moscow...
...senior class can be justly proud of its much-postponed affair. Combining a little music, more laughs, much liquid, and a spot of more or less extra-curricular entertainment in the form of a quartet, two vocalists, and a few words from "the Moose," those who attended walked away contented...
These and the other references to acetate are undoubtedly errors, since this term as commonly used refers to cellulose acetate, widely employed in making cellulosic thermoplastics and textiles. Apparently acetone, a highly inflammable liquid, large quantities of which are made in Germany, was used by the heinous SS guards, rather than acetate...