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...347° Fahrenheit?more than hot enough to sear human flesh, to cook a potato, to convert water into steam (212° F.); but only half hot enough to melt lead...
...article in the "New York Evening Journal" first brought the idea of this feat of culinary composition to Mr. Taxier. In it the point was carefully made that as yet there was no proper eating place in Harvard Square. Not the man to let a golden opportunity melt away, Mr. Taxier leapt to the spot and founded the wayside oasis new rapidly nearing completion...
...more do young hearts melt, as once all young hearts did, at the piteous gaze in the liquid eyes of the fleet and noble steed, Black Beauty. That steed was passed and lost in dust by The Motor Boys...
...wide, 5½ inches long. How big will an encyclopedia be when shrunk for the Fiskoscope? No bigger than an ordinary novel. The Oxford Dictionary? A trifling brochure. The works of Balzac, of James Fenimore Cooper, of Thackeray, Scott, James Joyce? Slender dockets. Dr. Eliot's five-foot shelf will melt to the thickness of a few packs of cards and those advertisement-readers who seek culture for ten minutes a day can carry whole libraries in their waistcoat pockets...
...seem shoddy. It covered the spare, fierce bones of the fastest "stock" car in the world, the 100-horse-power Mercedes. It was made of steel, painted green, by Edward Budd of Philadelphia. From a trunk swung low behind the gas tank, the curve of the tonneau rose to melt in grace, in vibrant repose, in transcendent muscular languor, into the forward thrust of the hood. The steel mudguards swept over the front wheels with the curve-like ripple of a bloodhound's shoulder-thews; they began where most mudguards stop and curved insolently toward each other far out against...