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...American climber. This cliff has the longest sheer drop on the mountain--perhaps 1,000 feet. The older guide who ranked as the second best in Chamonix led the way while the two less experienced climbers followed. It was the duty of the younger guide to 'belay' the rope to a rock while the older guide ascended to the next ledge or resting place. This he did by taking a turn of the line around a rock. In one instance while the leader was ascending, the rope kept paying out as it should and the guide disappeared out of sight...
...weighing approximately 100 pounds. A shelf projecting some six or eight inches from the circumference encircled the dummy about three feet from the bottom and was for the purpose of compelling the men to get their heads down under it when tackling. This device was hung vertically by a rope in the gymnasium and while it undoubtedly taught the men to tackle low and was the embroyo of a contrivance since developed into universal usage, it was so heavy and so hard that a good many men came away from the dummy drills injured, some suffering even broken collar bones...
Then over Station XFX and probably for the first time in history a prisoner described to thousands his sensations under "third degree." José de Leon Toral said tonelessly that he was suspended, swung and jerked by a rope binding his wrists and ankles behind his back, while policemen kicked him and predicted, "He'll soon sing...
...object into its spectroscopic lines. A chart of those lines is photographed and the picture may be sent by wire or wireless anywhere. Useful can this device be for recording the exact tints of textiles, oils, soap, cheese, lard, flour, butter, chocolate, glass, automobiles, tile, brick, roofing material, carpets, rope, hardware, paper, leather, cement, linoleum, cosmetics...
...with a knife fell upon the dummy's throat and gashed it open. He then splattered a red fluid (mercurochrome) around the wound. The Birming-hamians howled for joy. Some fired revolver shots into the "corpse." Others kicked it, spit at it. Others got a rope, noosed it, dragged it around the hall for a hanging...