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...husband, make the prairie theirs; but Beret is lost in a trackless wilderness. The Author, for 21 years professor at St. Olaf College, in Minnesota, has written many books. A Norwegian himself, son of a fisherman, he wrote in his own language. Now, translating his latest work into strong, thick-muscled English, he tells the story of his own acclimatization. More than this, he brings to notice a new school of American letters. In Minnesota many another Norwegian has written books about America in his own tongue, sending them to Norway for publication...
...Stockholm, Sweden, the view was good. But at Fagernas, Norway, thick clouds made useless the efforts of Dr. Samuel A. Mitchell of Leander-McCormick Observatory (University of Virginia), head of a large U. S. expedition...
Roman punishments: "The Romans have a unique way of punishing some of their criminals. They tie them down on their back in the sun and then cover the victim's face with a thick layer of molasses for the flies to feast upon. . . . They whip [matricides] in public, and then they sew them up in a bull's hide together with a dog, a cock and a monkey, and throw them into the Tiber...
...ring, on an x-ray photograph, is opaque, although the flesh of the finger is transparent. However, Professor George L. Clark of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who established the first laboratory for applying x-rays to industry, showed the testers how he detected flaws in steel four-inches thick...
Rajah Raboid, blindfolded with eleven thick bandages, drove an automobile at high speed through Kenton's curious traffic...