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...next to godly professor thereupon stripped under the Sinaitic sun, and began to pour water over himself, while crowds of little native children, gathering to get a ringside view of this naked Brobdingnagian, began to point at him and repeat something in Arabic over and over again. No mean linguist, the professor realized to his shame that they were crying, "Look! He hasn't got any! Look! He hasn't got any!" This had never happened before, and our hero blushed a deep crimson, and kept on washing. "All giants," an unwashed monk later told him, "according to the local...
Rich uncles of U. S. education, the great Foundations pour out their millions of dollars each year through funnels pointed at trouble spots in the educational system. Pedagogs, ever eager to see what the Foundations consider trouble spots, last week thumbed through the annual report of the General Education Board, affiliate of the Rockefeller Foundation. That most generous of all the educational Foundations, they discovered, was pointing a big funnel at the senior high school, the junior college...
...most moderns, but to some it is still a fighting word. In the ebbtide quarrel about whether Dickens was an overrated hypocrite or a great man who actually got his due, Author Kingsmill tries to stir up the dying ripples whereas Author Maurois does his tactful best to pour oil on them. U. S. readers, not because they have read Dickens' vituperative American Notes or Martin Chuzzlewit but because Kingsmill's attack is more convincing than Maurois' defense, will be inclined to agree that Dickens was not all his partisans have cracked...
...shock, in chloroform or benzol poisoning, a certain toxic factor is developed in the blood which upsets the heart's regular timing. From two first stages of disorganization the heart can ordinarily recover. But if something mental or physical excites the accelerator nerve or stimulates the adrenals to pour an excess of adrenalin into the blood, the ventricles begin to fibrillate. And shortly the heart tires and stops...
...bubble burst. That description is almost literally true; the swelling surface which had given more and more light as it expanded, became too tenuous to give constant radiation, and the effect of the large surface disappeared. The hotter radiation from the deeper layers of the star began to pour through the still expanding fragments of the bubble, and a real explosion might be said to have occurred...