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...Heflin: I have just read the Congressional Record of Jan. 28. I am glad my shaft struck home! It pierced your thick hide. It made you squeal...
...short, thick figure of Arturo Toscanini stood on the conductor's dais at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, last week. Italians, Germans, Americans beat their palms together, cheered. Soon he turned his back on them, raised his baton. He was no longer Toscanini, but Ludwig van Beethoven-the Beethoven of the surging First and the grandiose Ninth Symphonies. He needed no score to make soloists of the thousand musicians of the Philharmonic Orchestra. Beethoven was in his eyes, his fingertips, his baton. . . . The concert ended. There was a mighty ovation. The audience went home with its marrow tingling; critics groped...
...were fortunate enough to be there during the wet season. The average annual rainfall in the western part of Liberia is 150 inches; you can well imagine what a thick tropical forest is like after these rains...
...Like unrolling carpets ... so thick that in places the ground itself seemed to crawl forward in a grey mass," wrote eyewitnesses. "Tenderhearted" motorists were halted on the highways by the creeping hordes. More brutal drivers forged ahead, until they "skidded and were blocked" by masses of living and dead mice. Every front door in the lowlands of Kern County was reported to be shut fast, housewives staying within, men climbing out their windows to give battle. In the oil fields, workmen awoke to find their shacks alive with squeaking, gnawing rodents. Shoes were nibbled to shreds; socks were like lace...
...first building of the group will be slightly over 300 feet long and will fill up practically all the space between the University Museum and the New Lecture Hall. The main section of this structure will face Oxford Street and will be about 50 feet thick, with two wings of different lengths running back from it toward Frisbie Place and the second building. The longer of these wings is to be about 84 feet long, not inclusive of the width of the main building...