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...French poodle next door when he got home, imagining in his afterglow that he had slain Boris. Rennie's afterglow was somewhat marred by the bath to which she was subjected her first day out of confinement. And the changed attitude of the others, back to their normal indulgence towards a dowdy little bitch, cast a dream-like veil over the whole episode. Not until May, when her kennel rolled with black puppy-shapes, was she sure that she had really heard the Dark Gentleman's lyric blandishments. Author Stern, social chronicler, (The Matriarch, A Deputy Was King...
Then Mr. Marshall proceeded to list rainfalls from 1825 to 1924 to show that, with only two exceptions, a drier-than-normal four years was followed by the defeat of the party in power; with only one exception, a wetter-than-normal four years heralded continuance in power...
...farmers?but he should go straight to the office of Professor Charles F. Marvin, chief of the U. S. Weather Bureau, who is the last word on rain, snow, sleet, hurricane, cloudburst, earthquake.? Mr. Marvin could tell the President that the rainfall for 1925 was 13% less than normal and 1926 was 1% drier than normal. Unless the rain gods decree a pretty pattering on the window panes in 1927 and 1928, meteorologists must predict defeat for Republicans...
...appear. Blowing fresh air in at one end and sucking it out at the other was pronounced impossible. It would take too long to clear the foul end in the event of a conflagration, and the percentage of carbon monoxide at the foul end would endanger life even under normal tunnel conditions. The late Clifford M. Holland won a mighty memorial by devising a system of four stations, operating 84 huge fans, to send currents of fresh air into the base of the tubes, on each side, through chutes running the length of the tubes with two-inch vents...
...Bridgewater Normal (tentative...