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Micro-Sticks & Stones. A graphic phrase, "micro-sticks and micro-stones," the U. S. Weather Bureau's William Jackson Humphreys coined to emphasize how technically impure is the air man breathes. Always in the atmosphere are bits of rock, vegetable fibre, litter, salt (over oceans), sulphuric acid (from soft coal chimneys and volcanoes), nitric acid (from lightning), meteoritic ash. The bronchial tubes get rid of most of such debris with almost no harm to the body...
...under the surface. The best a geologist can do with all the tools of science at his service is to locate underground formations where oil might have seeped. Thus the geologist can prevent useless digging. When he picks the site of a probable well, he studies the subsurface rock and sand, particularly for those minute fossil animals called foraminifera whose deep presence almost always means oil a little ways farther down. So accurate have geologists become in their prospecting, so reliable that of 170 wells recently drilled, geologists indicated 157. Only 13 were wildcats.-Oklahoma's Charles Newton Gould...
...even whiter than sandy Senator Caraway-a blue-eyed, pink-&-white blond, an ear, nose & throat specialist of considerable reputation, one of the best "radical mastoid" men in the land, a gentleman of 69 who for years was a familiar figure on the socialite golf links of Piping Rock Club...
...were indicted. She repeated her lurid story of a night last March when, as she and Franklin set out to be married, they were attacked by the defendants. She testified: "Connie yelled out 'Till, Till, they're akillin' me!' Then Joe White slammed a big rock on his haid. I couldn't help him none because Greenway was adraggin' me into the bushes. Then Hester came and helped Greenway do what he was doin' to me. I went back later and seen Connie layin' in the road. He was daid." Later...
...monasteries of Mount Athos in Greece, which have changed scarcely by one syllable of a prayer since the 4th and 5th Centuries. Last week he was telling his friends, and editing a cinema film to show others, about a man of 79 who lives nearly naked under a rock on Mount Athos and whose word is: "God is love, and tolerance, and Nature...