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...knew that the worst that could happen to me was a broken leg. As I have broken legs twice, am still young and my bones soft, that would not make a great deal of difference...
...giant reeled, fell, crawled behind a tree and opened fire once more. The posse returned his fusillade. When the echoes died out among the cold hills the lieutenant approached. Behind the tree the great brown figure lay lifeless, his blood melting dark holes in the soft snow. A week after the wild man's first startling appearance, he was sledged back to North Creek, interred with his secret history...
...Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh last week rolled a strange new material. It looked and felt like a sheet of steel, but its surface did not shine like steel. It was a surface soft as felt. A casual observer would have guessed it was steel covered with felt. Dr. Alden William Coffman would have pointed out that a cross section showed no line of demarcation between felt and steel. Then Dr. Coffman, who developed it, would have explained that it was felt-coated steel, but that the felt was not merely a covering, was an integral part...
...great deal about the Lapuan movement and at the beginning of the revolt, when it was discovered that the Finnish government had a complete list of contributors to the Lapuan war chest, Finns looked curiously at Minna Craucher. Last week they found her hunched over a desk with a soft-nosed bullet in her brain. Police inspectors turned thoughtful eyes on General K. Martt Wallenius, Lapuan leader...
...remote estate a man found a massive diamond; he could buy anything he wanted by merely chipping off a sliver. He lived in super-Oriental luxury, owned hundreds of shirts, hundreds of neckties, socks, shoes. His house was fitted with every kind of comfort-giving device: buttons that brought soft music from an unseen orchestra, beds that tilted and slid a sleeper gently into a warm, perfumed bath, while violins played. . . . Critics agreed that Author Fitzgerald had imagination; many a college youth dreamed of finding a huge diamond. Last week Bill Paley sailed for the Bahamas with...