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...smoke, and Cooper's spur of the moment marriage with Isabel, a Barnard girl, ends on the proverbial rocks. The flashback fades, and Morgan-Cooper banter lights up the scene to dispel the otherwise shady atmosphere of the proceedings. Cas, with a slightly overworked conscience, takes a powder to Chicago on general principles to look the situation over...
Each man kept his musket, powder horn, wooden canteen, knapsack and uniform. In his pocket were four months' wages in promissory notes, marketable at only two shillings to the pound. Veterans who thought this a meager reward (as most did) had the option of staying in camp until their enlistments were up. But, as Washington had shrewdly guessed, what every one wanted most was to get home...
...reopened rocket experimentation, and really started the modern era of rocket research. In it Goddard not only showed how to reach "high altitudes" theoretically, but also gave considerable space to ways of reaching the moon, and gave the results of some experiments he had made to send some flash powder to the moon, so earthly astronomers could see the hit. He calculated that only a little flash powder would do the job: 2.67 Ib. for a "just-visible" flash, and 13.82 to be "strikingly visible...
...cheered up when he was given a delousing bath, dusted himself happily with insecticide powder. He said that his name was Stanlius; that he was the stepson of a Russian fighting with the Germans; that he had never shot anybody; and that he was ten years...
Salvos of Mercy. The hillside took an awful going-over that day & night. There were many more wounded. U.S. shells also began to fall plunk in the battalion's lines. But the big 155-mm. projectiles did not explode. They were salvos of mercy: smoke shells stripped of powder, cotton-packed with sulfas, plasma, morphine...