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...Shower of Sermons...
Last year you were good enough to note the fact that I was editing a volume of Best Sermons, and the notice brought me a shower of sermons from all over the land-which shows how far-flung the influence of TIME...
...There is no comparison," he said when questioned as as to the relative difficulties of piloting his car through the front line trenches and Boston thoroughfares." I would much rather take a chance on running through a shower of shrapnel and dodging shell holes than try and make a hurry trip down Washington Street on Saturday afternoon...
Captain L. I. Eagle and Lieut. W. E. Melville, piloting two De Haviland airplanes, climbed to 13,000 feet, made a heavy strata of cumulus clouds their objective. Spectators saw them disappear. Then they suddenly broke through, as the cloud disintegrated under the shower of electrified sand discharged through nozzles set in the under portion of the fuselage. The aviators described a circle above the cloud bank and their maneuver was duplicated by a clean-cut pathway through the mist. "A miracle!" cried some of the watchers...
...blows were like big stones raining. I said to myself without feeling any pain: 'When will the big stones raining on me stop?' . . . This time Wills will be the one to feel the big stones raining -lluvia de piedras, I say in my own language-shower of stones...