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Other researches in progress deal with the problem of the safe landing of airplanes in thick weather an electric-wave technique which is new being used in an attack on the problem of cancer and the commercial application of electric oscillations as a means of standardizing the thickness of paper and rubber during their manufacture...
...Giants looked very much like men. The smallest was at least twice the size of any of the men in the Philosophers' Hall. They all glowered about rather stupidly from under thick eyebrows. And their lower jaws stuck out like the scoops of steam shovels. Their feet and hands were disproportionately huge. The fingers were shaped like clubs, without grace. Hair grew on the backs of the fingers and hands. The faces of those who were shaven showed many coarse wrinkles, like a harvested hay field...
...just been acquitted by a U. S. jury of a prohibition charge. She had returned to her own world to celebrate her freedom. A brass band preceded her. Her "suckers" (patrons) rose en masse to cheer her entrance. She kissed everybody in sight. The smoky air was thick with vindictive joy. Harry Thaw, onetime maniac, hysterical with delight, jigged up and down at his table until Miss Guinan led him out on the floor to introduce him. She read congratulatory messages from such friends as Manhattan's Congressman La Guardia, Henry Zittel of Zit's (theatrical weekly...
...perhaps most "at home" when entertaining tycoons, on the 38th floor of the Bankers' Building on Chicago's Clark Street. He sits at one end of a large, glass-topped table, around which are nine straight-backed chairs. There are five windows,, softly curtained, and a thick soft carpet. Along one entire wall is hung a tapestry which reaches from ceiling to floor. Behind the tapestry, in a kind of recess, is a large and well equipped refreshment counter. Across the room from this counter is a large safe, containing money and other valuables. One door leads...
...Christ, bring me chili, bring me peppers!" Armfuls and armfuls of dried chili were stacked on the windward side of the steeple by artful Insurrectos who took care to work under the eaves of the church, out of range of the machine gun. Then the pepper pyre was lighted. Thick clouds of oily, acrid, pepper smoke poured up to envelop the steeple, blind, gag, choke. Passed ten minutes. Then the bolts of the church door grated. Out to surrender filed a sorry, coughing, spitting, weepy little crew of federals. Their rebel captors, pious, had thus avoided the desecration of bursting...