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...four House fields now in use were built in 1924 on fill material that has since settled unevenly. The H.A.A. will now lay a cinder foundation under the whole area, Avery said, and, if the fields should sink in the future, "at least they'll sink more evenly...
...ancient Stabiae, near Naples, Professor Libero D'Orsi was impatiently watching a field of ripening tomatoes, the property of Peasant Vincenzo Tammaro. Under the tomatoes, he was sure, lay riches of classical art. But the peasant had the professor neatly trussed in red tape. He could not sink a spade until the tomatoes were safely in the sauce factory...
...Aiken's poems seem spotty. All too often his narrative poems, dealing with such subjects as a tailor's affair with a vampire and a Roman emperor's gloating over the dissection of an Eastern princess, seem more ridiculous than horrible. And his reflective poems frequently sink into a mindless musical torpor, in which occasional brilliant passages are overwhelmed by loose, undisciplined globs of language...
...Hitler and the Japanese generals miscalculated badly, ten years ago, when they thought we would not be able to use our economic power effectively to defeat aggression." The President slowed down to let the next sentence sink in: "Let would-be aggressors make no such mistake today...
...advance man, returning from a tour through the Middle West, reported: "Acheson is catching most of the hell here in Washington, but don't think Johnson isn't getting it out in the states. He's just as hot as Acheson and either is enough to sink a Democrat right...