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...industrious pioneer, now rose up to thwart these air pioneers. Lieutenant Wooster turned the beak of the American Legion, slightly, ever so slightly. With that turn, the plane lost flying speed. A landing was now imperative. Marshes, mud flats, duck ponds yawned below. Upon a small patch of green, Lieutenant Wooster made a perfect landing-an almost unheard-of feat with a plane loaded so heavily. The yellow giant skidded across the green marsh into the muddy waters of a shallow duck pond, wherein the giant's beak stuck. Its tail completed a semicircle. In its cockpit lay Lieutenant...
Rivaling the incredibility of the Wessels-hen (see above) is the Hilturnip. This turnip, located on the farm of one T. G. Hill, near Corpus Christi, Tex., grew up in a cabbage patch. Responding to environment, it swelled larger, larger, larger. Finally it reached a diameter of 25 inches, a weight of 12 pounds. Civically proud, the Corpus Christi Chamber of Commerce placed the Hill turnip on exhibition...
...Chiang Kai-shek told news- gatherers that "as soon as possible" his armies would press on to capture Peking. Will Chang fight Chiang? Great battles between them seemed inevitable last week, but it was probable that their secret agents were even then chaffering and hornswoggling in an effort to patch up terms whereby the Nationalists may be confirmed as masters of all China below the Yangtze river, with Chang Tso-lin remaining supreme north of the Yangtze...
Like eager boys in a Hallowe'en cabbage patch, Dr. Arnold Sack's assistants at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, twisted the blackened heads off his Egyptian mummies so that he could better study them for traces of ancient afflictions. The oldest skulls, now weazened and leather-covered, showed teeth in perfect condition. People of 4,000 to 6,000 years ago ate coarse foods which prevented dental decay. But by the time of the Christian Era, Egyptian life was luxurious, food was soft. Consequently tooth decay was as prevalent as today. One batch of 500 mummies showed...
...obeisance to the fame of Oxford, mentioning Poet Tennyson as one of her illustrious graduates. Speaker Franklin of Oxford, replying with thanks, was obliged to disown Lord Tennyson, who went to Cambridge. "And Oxford," he added, "is a seat of learning and wouldn't consider Cambridge for a patch...