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Scientists at Princeton have found that the rope would have to be a thousand feet long and three inches thick to withstand the onslaught of the two combining classes. A tug of war was decided on last year to take the place of the historical flour picture, but the student council is now at a loss to find a suitable substitute...
...contribution to serious letters. Sometimes a deep pulse of life makes itself felt, sometimes an incomparable atmosphere passes over the hard surfaces, as in Java Head and The Three Black Pennys. But mostly, labor faithfully though he obviously does, Author Hergesheimer remains a short-range camera, loaded with a thick film. "No Grifolifes...
...thought of the women he saw. "They have naked necks," he said. He grew a little tired of taxicabs and tuxedos, of nightclubs and subways and electric lights and elevators. Whenever these things were shown him he was expected to look amazed; to say "By jingo" in his slow, thick voice. He wanted to please the captain; he must keep on being surprised. . . . Perhaps these men with pencils would be surprised if they saw a great island covered with seals like flies on a lump of sugar. Perhaps they would get stuck if they had to walk for five days...
...dear readers, it was among you. and it is with modest humility that I say this, it was among you that I became great. All that I am, and I need not tell you all that I am, I owe in part at least to you, my friends through thick and thin, and the thinner the thicker...
...lizards, over nine feet long, from the Island of Komodo, Dutch East Indies, descendants of the dinosaurs, the the probable originals of the dragon on China's flag. Out of their mouths shot forked tongues of scarlet, like flames. When angered, they hissed like escaped steam. Their bodies, thick as a brawny man's, were studded with scales like nail heads. Down their backs ran a jagged ridge of tough "armor plate." First of their kind to know captivity, they were incarcerated in the Bronx Zoo, for which they had been captured by Douglas Burden* of Manhattan, youthful...