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...finds himself forced to spend a few weeks in the home of a harmless Midwestern family who really didn't deserve it. Between efforts to run his unwilling host's family, a prodigious and somewhat weird literary activity, and a passion for making himself disliked, our hero unleashes a stream of wisecracks and stream a mass of bewildering situations that hasn't been matched...
Sparks from his torch must have shot into the pile. Smoke puffed up. Flames spurted. Only two buckets of water were at hand. Workmen had to flee. From the deck outside they poked a hose through a window. A feeble stream had no effect. Fire licked along ceilings, cabin walls, panelings...
...Singapore he said: "A ceaseless stream of ships, men and materials have flowed from this country for a year and a half in order to build up and sustain our armies in the Middle East. We had to do our best to give substantial aid to Russia. . . . How then, in this posture, gripped and held and battered as we were, could we have provided for the safety of the Far East against such an avalanche of fire and steel as has been hurled upon us by Japan...
...roomy Iowa City house, where his principal hobby was gardening, he lived in dignified semiretirement, entertained a continual stream of distinguished visitors, shook a gentle fist at Bohemia and the big cities, and preached the gospel of U.S. regionalism and the Iowa soil. More than any other U.S. painter, he had expressed the unashamed simplicity and dignified realism that lay behind the complacent, materialistic exterior of rural Midwestern life. Other painters might see and paint again the plain, practical beauty of the Iowa landscape. But Grant Wood had discovered...
Forward thrust, engineers formerly thought, would also be increased, since the second screw would bite into an already moving air stream. But wind-tunnel research at Stanford has shown only a disappointing 2½% increase in thrust efficiency at low speeds, an actual loss of efficiency at higher speeds...