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Some girls shave their legs. Others melt down some candle wax, splash it on, let it cake, and chip if off, Saves blades, they explain...
...colleges which replied to the inquiry, only Notre Dame seemed unworried about the future of its athletics. The others are worried. Athletic directors generally exuded hope that somehow the lush days of the 20's would return and that the deficits which plague many of them how will melt away. High university officials at Harvard, however, are resigned to athletic deficits and making them up through other University funds. Nine of the 15 colleges have already absorbed their athletic departments into the overall budget plan of the institution. Hero, indeed, the HAA is silently being absorbed into the Faculty...
Soldiers Who Melt Away. A month ago, French fears materialized. Four Viet Minh battalions attacked Dongkhe (see map), a fort at the north end of the frontier, using antiaircraft guns and 105-mm. artillery, none of which they had had before. The French staff decided to withdraw from Caobang, a fort a few miles to the north of Dongkhe...
...root of this failure is a fuzzy fallacy which holds that Communism appeals only to the ill-fed. According to this theory, all that is necessary to defeat the Communists is to raise a country's standard of living; then, in the sun of prosperity, Communism will melt away...
According to Langmuir's theory, silver iodide particles in the right amount will turn a cloud of supercooled (below freezing) water droplets into snowflakes. The flakes sink to warm lower levels, melt and fall as rain. But if there are too many iodide particles competing for the moisture in the water droplets, the snowflakes formed are too small to fall. They may even rise, drifting off as thin cirrus clouds that never yield any rain...