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Locale of Explorer Beebe's present proj-ect (to build up a picture of sea life in strata to a great depth) is a great well in the sea five miles south of Nonsuch. Over the well, a mile deep and eight miles in diameter, the tug Gladisfen cruises about. From a trailing drag line which scrapes the bottom, nets are strung to capture specimens in strata 100 fathoms apart...
...possibility of his becoming a fossil occurs only if he is buried shortly after death or possibly at the time of death. In this event the body does not have a chance to rot, but is pressed unharmed into a rock layer. The dense nature of the rock strata in this quarry is of advantage in that water is prevented from seeping through and hence rotting away the tiny remains...
There are few better tests of the way America looks at its Prohibition Laws than is to be found in the attitude of such a body as the Harvard faculty, representing as it does, so high intellectual and social strata...
...heroine's feelings are almost as difficult to follow as Mr. Eyre's labyrinthine plot. But you must remember that you are observing specimens of the loftiest social strata who may be expected to have the most delicate and complex sensibilities. Even the butler is a deposed Russian striving to stifle his sense of nobility as well as his love for the heroine. And there is always the pleasure of hearing aristocrats indulging in their little jocosities, such as. "Adenoids are meant to be heard, not seen...
...upon his work more than any warning could, and it is not always the inferior student who needs this help from above. And lastly punishment has from time immemorial been an influence on the lives of men. There will always be a certain class in all social and intellectual strata which can learn only by punishment. For this class it is difficult to see what will take the place of probation...