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...really an underwater balloon designed to sail the depths of the sea just as a blimp navigates the air. Her crew compartment is a forged and welded steel sphere about 8 ft. in diameter with walls 3½ in. thick. This is the only part designed to resist the enormous pressure of the deep sea. It hangs below a "floater": a submarine-shaped hull of thin steel about 60 feet long and filled with 22,000 gallons of gasoline...
...couldn't resist commenting on your "intelligent" syllogism supporting Dr. Kinsey's contention that anything which a lot of people or animals do is normal. I'd like to offer another which makes just about as much sense: 1) Man is an animal; 2) some animals when angered by an enemy will bite that enemy; 3) since animals are natural, this action is natural and it is perfectly normal for human beings to go about biting their enemies. Both syllogisms have an apparent weakness in their major premise, which, of course, renders their conclusions invalid. The important...
...Chifwamba." The Congress, dedicated to passive resistance, was almost as surprised as the authorities by the violence in Nguru land. But it was quick to capitalize on the trouble to press its own campaign against federation. Its leader is 43-year-old Hastings Banda, who left Nyasaland 21 years ago, got a U.S. education (University of Chicago), makes his home in London's Buckingham Palace Road but keeps in close touch with Ny-asaland's native politicians. Most of the chieftains back Banda's Congress (those who don't are being deposed, like the headman...
...flying the mail from St. Louis to Chicago. It is September 1926, and he is not yet 25, but four solid years of barnstorming and army air service have given him an air of quiet confidence that a group of aviation-mind ed St. Louis businessmen cannot resist...
...pants. His idea of a joke was to return a borrowed sack to a farmer with a hornet's nest inside. Acidly sardonic, he called religion "the fabrication of vendible imponderables in the nth dimension," religious organizations "chain stores," and individual churches "retail outlets." Women apparently could not resist him. nor he, them. "What are you to do if the woman moves in on you?" he once asked a friend...