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...long run, speech, written down in this way because I find it convenient, and those who speak it may also occasionally find it helpful." Mry Fry's glittering poetry is fun to listen to. Ignore the meaning, and watch it soar and spin about the page or stage, like a toy airplane would too tight that swirls crazily, bumps into a chair (laughter), backs up a bit, and takes off again...
Some squares, such as those marked "Courtesy" or "Communion," offer a new spin of the wheel or an advance of several notches. Others impose severe penalties. At square 17 the player loses a turn and must go back to number 10 for "yielding to the Devil's temptation." The same punishment is demanded for reading the red-splashed "evil press" (number 31). The worst penalty of all is attached to the last square-number 49-which sends the young "pilgrim" all the way back to number 5, the square marked "Religious Instruction." On square 49 is a picture...
...make a "Snowbunny Spin," Ceno Snolak's famous ski lodge cocktail is herein presented for the first time publicly...
With a flashing of 84 rectifier tubes and a chugging of six great electromagnets, the world's biggest (300 million volt) betatron started operating last week at the University of Illinois. Betatrons look something like cyclotrons, but instead of spinning protons or heavier particles, they spin lightweight electrons...
...obscurity in the records does not bother Dr. Velikovsky, who spins his theory out of threads snipped out of the ancient tangle of folklore. Myths and popular legends are full of catastrophes. Many ancient peoples, for instance, lived in fertile river valleys. They suffered from floods, and were apt to magnify big ones into widespread deluges. They usually worshiped the sun in some form, and were therefore apt to spin myths about times when their god or gods' behaved oddly. Velikovsky makes a large collection of these catastrophe myths and insists that they refer to the visits...