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Bombing Accuracy: A bomb dropped from 12,000 feet requires 28 seconds to fall, during which time a 21-knot ship travels almost 1,000 feet. Because of weight limitation, airplane sights are inaccurate; and yet an error of one-half degree will place the bomb 100 feet out in a 12,000-foot fall. So a zigzagging ship would be hard...
...spoke to him. "Arise, Jonah," cried He, "and go to Nineveh. Cry out against that great city for its sins." Jonah answered fiercely: "You . . . What are you God of ? Were you God of Israel when a Tyrian stole my love? Was I your prophet then?" In anger, he took ship for Tarshish, thinking by this to make God lose...
...east, after the vessel, God's anger climbed in the likeness of a black cone. The air thinned, darkened, the sea cowered beside the ship; Jonah slept. Suddenly, the sail split from top to bottom and one mariner, huddled with the rest, called on the name of his god in a voice shrill and little like a bat's; next instant, with a great clap, the sky fell into...
Bernard M. Baruch, financier, thought: "Don't give up the ship." Houdini, after a struggle, got "a sense of heaving water and a ship...
...Aida de Acosta Root, wife of Wren Root, Manhattan Traction magnate and nephew of Lawyer Elihu Root, was going blind. Across Europe she hurried, from hospital to hospital, received little help, took ship, came to the U. S., to Washington, D. C, asked for an appointment with Dr. William Holland Wilmer, famed eye specialist. Said Dr. Wilmer's secretary: "You can have an appointment in six weeks...