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...Higginbottom gets the nod as wing on the first line (and it is quite possible that he will), he will provide the speed to the line that has been sorely missed since Kelley's injury. Higginbottom, who has played on the third line all year long, ic actually good enough to be of first or second line caliber. But when Weiland found that Bob McVey, Dave Vietze, and Dick Fischer worked so well together, he decided to leave Higginbottom on the third line to make it as powerful as possible...
...garage-workshop they found a lathe. Said one cop, patting the machine: "Here we have the whole story." But back in the house, behind washtubs in a closet, they found another chapter: short pieces of pipe, three cheap pocket watches and some flashlight batteries. With hardly more than a nod from the cops, George put on his street clothes with his customary fastidiousness, bade his moaning sisters goodbye, and, beaming through his round, gold-rimmed glasses like a parish clergyman off on his rounds, drove downtown to headquarters...
...cheerful as a bottle of champagne. That is how the question stood. Legislators were batting new names around, and Homer Ludwick had hope in his heart. Perhaps they would drop "North," and call it "Dakota." Or maybe "Miami," someone suggested, or "Dixie," or "East Guadalajara," or, with a nod to their Canadian neighbor, "South Manitoba." Maybe even "Welk...
...invention the typewriter is, and how useful it would be in an examination room. But nothing has ever come of our notion, and the fact that we repeat it now is not an indication that we really expect the Faculty to consider the matter in January, but merely a nod to the passing of time and an assurance, to those of you who doubt, that there are still some things in this world that can be counted...
...blossom blue, a pigment so precious that the duke listed two pots of it among his treasures. The queen's handbook was meant to delight as well as instruct. The Nativity (see cut) introduces the text for sunrise prayers, but just in case courtly heads should begin to nod, Artist Jean Pucelle, a Paris illuminator so famed that even Dante sang his praise, spiced it with a troupe of acrobats and a monster king tempting a dog with a colossal jawbone...