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...cavernous trumpetings became dismal, froggy croaks. Trainers, seeing the remaining half of a $10,000 investment shedding weight at the rate of 10 Ib. a day, called doctor after doctor, but no physician's hand could feel that flapping pulse, no stethoscope could reveal the disorder beneath a hide thick as a truck tire. Last week Goliath II still lay in Sarasota and the Circus went on without...
...sometimes to be allowed to splash comically in the Roney-Plaza Hotel's luxurious swimming pool in Miami, where Weissmuller was swimming instructor. Nevertheless he acquits himself creditably. His spare frame is not too skinny for the role; he swims faster than Miss O'Sullivan can run and his thick-featured face is what one would expect in a foster brother of wild beasts. He wrestles bravely with animals, stuffed or otherwise, and rides a hippopotamus as though it were a Shetland pony. Best of all is his first appearance?swooping through the trees in huge quick parabolas...
...were a banker, a broker, an aviator. Broker R. Snowden Andrews and Aviator John Petre were old sealers; Banker Edward Fletcher had never heard a seal bark. Thirty-six hours later the Tar Baby crept toward Goose Island, the Sound's favorite seal haunt. But the weather was thick, the seals kept away from the rocks where on bright days they bask. Patiently the banker, the broker, the aviator waited for another dawn. That day it snowed, they shivered aboard their boat all day. On the fourth day the skies cleared. Across the width of Goose Island the three...
This unique research will start on the elastic and other properties of rocks. For example, how do rocks under great pressure conduct heat? This is something fundamental in the study of earth transformations. To prosecute the study Professor Bridgman has some remarkably powerful little machines. They consist essentially of thick, steel-jacketed cylinders carefully cast and precisely machined. The hydraulic pressure which oil puts against pistons in the cylinders is presumably less than the pressure upon things deep within the earth. Yet the man-made pressure changes the nature of elements. Thirty-nine of 48 pure metals which Professor Bridgman...
...neighbors put in their mushroom-like appearance Adams House was there. Colonial Apthorp sheltered General Putnam; the captured Burgoyne lived in it when it were only a few of the forty coats of paint which the interior decorators removed in 1930. Westmorly Court and Randolph Hall rose when thick walls and Germanic gloom were the order of the day in architecture. To these has been added a structure for common rooms and library, whose Georgian exterior leaves the unsuspecting visitor unprepared for the array of carved and brightly painted Moorish ceilings, Bristol-board flagstones, marble columns painted on cerulean blue...