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...Arkansas political meetings of the day were larks for John McClellan. His political favorite was Governor Jeff Davis,† an imposing figure in a Prince Albert coat of Confederate grey, whose platform was simple: "I am a hard-shell Baptist in religion. I believe in foot-washing, saving your seed potatoes and paying your honest debts." Invective .ran high in Arkansas politics, and little John McClellan had no way of telling the campaign flourish from the mortal insult. He took everything with deadly seriousness, spent sleepless nights after his heroes were attacked, blazingly denounced Jeff's enemies to audiences...
Junta will be seeded first in the singles today, and he and Sears will have the top doubles seed...
...stern (see diagram). They converge toward the propeller, and when the ship is in motion, the propeller sucks streams of water from both grooves. As the streams move together, they exert pressure on the wedge-shaped section of hull between them and "pinch" it forward, rather as a watermelon seed is pinched from between two fingers...
...delight in intimate, everyday scenes, anecdotal and often merely decorative. But with the custom of copying from old masters, along with an absorption in technique for its own sake, art came perilously close to feeding upon itself. The famed three-volume painting primer called The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, compiled between 1679 and 1701 in a small Nanking house (called the Mustard Seed Garden), broke down brush strokes into 16 different categories. Beginning painters were expected to be proficient in each of them, ranging from "hemp fibers" and "ax cuts" to "horses' teeth" and "sesame seeds...
Through E.B.F., millions of students have been able to witness such wonders as the growth of a plant from seed to blossom in a matter of minutes. They have seen the human heart in action, been whisked through the ages of history. To make one film on hearing, the E.B.F. staff worked 18 months, used the ears of three corpses to show the ear's inner workings. Each script gets a thorough examination by experts, but it is primarily up to producer and photographer to present the facts with imagination...