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...Swift & Co. v. the U. S. (Asking to be freed from an agreement to confine activities to meat packing...
Tackling practice tried tempers. Tackling has been called the most valued weapon of a player's arma ment. In games, tackling is the swift answer to an enemy chal lenge; fraught with an emotional energy that softens, psychologically the bumps. In practice, it is a dull business hammering with the shoulders the piston hammers of another man's knees...
...spectacular pioneering. Huge "missing stretches" of the supposed Antarctic continent remain to be mapped. The terrific Antarctic blizzards have yet to be explained. Without referring directly to Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's proposed Antarctic airplane survey next year, Dr. Brown deprecated exploration from the air as too swift and cursory to execute the patient observation and accurate measurements needed...
...fathoms beneath the surface of the sea, the captain, eleven officers and 90 men drowned. Only 22 of the crew were saved. The Ashi, which had apparently skimmed the Naka, remained afloat with a great gash in her bows. But the impact had knocked 27 men to a swift death in the cold, briny water. The Naka was not badly damaged...
...done so quickly. To cover the assignment with the thoroughness and mimetic accuracy (but not the rancor) of a Sinclair Lewis, and at the same time to create four central characters of breathless reality, and a Dickensian hurly-burly of minor characters, and to keep them moving through their swift social traffic under their own power and in their right positions, requires a highly developed social instinct and something akin to literary genius. Socially and book-technically, Little Sins is a stunning performance. And to its fundamental perfections are superadded real whimsy, real pathos, an unobtrusive cleverness at small talk...