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...middle and inner ear. The outer ear collects sound waves, passes them through a long canal to the eardrum. The soundwaves striking the drum set up vibrations which are transmitted first through the tiny lever bones of the middle ear-the "hammer," "anvil," and "stirrup"-then through a tissue-thin window into the inner ear. On the other side of this window is the main sound-wave receiver, a snail-like bone sunk deep in the base of the skull, with communicating nerves to the brain...
...subscribes for bonds not to fill orders on his books but believing he can resell them to laggards at a slightly higher price for small but quick profit. Sir John, by offering only 3% (some British loans in World War I paid 5%), had left the disgusted stags too thin a margin on which to operate. In City jargon the Chancellor was "trying it on the hard way," but when two top-hatted, scarlet-coated minions of the Bank of England swung its portals wide his confidence was justified. In went the stockbrokers' clerks and within four hours...
...among them Rory O'Connor, executed by the Irish Provisional Government and Michael Collins, mainstay for years of the rebellion movement, ambushed and shot by the I. R. A. For two years de Valera hid from not British but Irish forces. Die-hards stood by him through thick & thin, continuing to consider him the genuine President of the Irish Republic...
Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary is full of brilliant minds. One of them is Dr. James Moffatt, tall, thin, shy, 60-year-old Scot. Officially retired, Dr. Moffatt still teaches a course in church history. A scholar of many interests, he has written as many as five books a year; his specialty is the Bible. The Moffatt Translation, like the recent Goodspeed-Smith "American" Bible, is much more colloquial than the Revised Version of 1901, now being re-revised by a committee Under Dr. Moffatt. Last week this Presbyterian pundit had a new job: program consultant for a commercial...
...striding up and down in front of the fireplace, glowing pipe in hand. His somewhat forlorn frame was suitably encased in baggy tweeds. There was a brandy-snifter on the mantelpiece with a thin film of amber curving along the bottom. Vag decided that he cut a pretty smooth figure in front of the fire, especially when the tiny yellow flames spurted and gave his face a ruddy gleam easily mistaken, he thought, for the flush of ambition of a young man about to graduate from Harvard. "But what do you want to be?" came the quiet voice from...