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Famed is England's DORA (Defence of the Realm Act), compendium of War-time restrictions, still unrepealed. Frequently flayed was Dora, and it must certainly be admitted that she has produced many children who are quite literally robots. For when, last week, Consolidated Automatic Merchandising Corp.-better known as...
Skippy cries bitterly at the end of the book. More cheerful to contemplate are Skippyisms from the early, ragamuffin chapters. Samples:
No man likes the taste of butter "straight" less than His Majesty's bantamweight, peppery Secretary of State for Dominions & Colonies, the Rt. Hon. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery. None the less, Mr. Amery let a great deal of butter melt on his short, sharp tongue, the other day...
A man who makes it his business to examine samples of ergot from all countries is Dr. Henry Hurd Rusby, 74, professor of botany, physiology and materia medica at Columbia University since 1888. The condition of Spanish and Portuguese ergot Dr. Rusby has usually found good. The usual condition of...
This work is now being continued by conducting life tests on cable samples. The samples are approximately fifteen feet long, and they are subjected to high voltage for fifteen hours each day. Also, their electrical characteristics are measured every day so that we can determine the electrical characteristics of the...