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Notable is the magazine's "Ask Adventure" department, founded 18 years ago with a board of seven experts to answer readers' questions. Today 98 experts in all corners of the world answer such ques-tions as whether a Gila monster's bite is fatal, whether a snake can milk a cow, the status of slavery in Ethiopia, the hazards of existence in the Everglades, the respective fighting merits of lions and gorillas. For replying to sharp-eyed readers the experts get 50? per answer. Few members of the Explorers' Club can find technical fault with Adventure...
...final, with the dynamometer (pull-measuring device) set at 3,900 Ib., a new high mark, the equivalent of a rolling load of 130 tons or of nine monster plows cutting 14-inch furrows, the East's Flaxie & Dan on their first trial pulled hard, started the load, got it half way down the 27 1/2-ft. strip they had to cover. Then they suddenly stopped, mistaking an overexcited spectator's shout of GO! GO! for WHOA! WHOA...
...Floors Castle in Scotland, Mr. Chamberlain asked for an even larger British Navy. "The dangerously low level to which our defenses have fallen has caused some to treat us contemptuously," said he. "This is not a tolerable situation. . . . Italian opinion has been led to regard Britain as a monster of hypocrisy and selfishness. This is not true...
After his death she was variously pictured as a monster, a depraved, ugly, unscrupulous plotter, a madwoman. In Joseph Shearing's short biography this daughter of an impoverished provincial noble is presented, with unqualified admiration, as pure, eloquent, composed, inspired by the noblest of human motives, facing both her crime and its consequences with unearthly serenity. Seven years of seclusion in a convent had deepened her knowledge of and admiration for the noble heroes of antiquity, without giving her an understanding of her own time. On July 10, after giving some of her cherished possessions to her friends...
Against Dictator Mussolini the chief British move last week was actually financial. Her monster "Big Five" banks claimed to be acting independently of the Bank of England when they tightened credits to Italy sharply, made the munitions buying Dictator wince at the vast, invisible potency of London financiers. If any sneak up the Blue Nile was started it was a genuine sneak. Comfortable Punch cartooned a musical comedy interlude in which Dame France and John Bull, wagging their fingers at II Duce, sing: We don't want you to fight But, by jingo, if you do, We shall probably...