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...dais a thin blond man in a choker collar made a loud rapid speech and a short dark man swore to be a good Vice-President. After a tremendous throat-clearing a minister prayed and the short dark man read a speech from a little leather notebook. Mr. Coolidge listened with one hand up to his face. When the speech was over everybody clapped and helter-skeltered out of doors to the front steps of the Capitol...
...showing Tsar Nicholas II. and his Tsaritsa. Fascinated, poor Vassili Martinow watched the Autocrat of all the Russias stride dimly across the screen and enter a base hospital, where he was greeted by the Commandant. As this official's face came into sharp focus, Vassili Martinow gave the thin, high-pitched scream of an old man, and fainted dead away...
Hence the development of the radial air-cooled airplane engine. In this type 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 9 cylinders radiate like spokes from a common centre. Each cylinder bristles with thin metal fins which absorb the engine's heat and spread it to the cooler...
...Only a thin line of intention divides the two classes. The Crooked Bust is a criminal offense...
Does the Harvard Lampoon hit too hard, or are academic communities abnormally thin-skinned? At royal courts the function of the king's fool was to rush in where statesmen feared to tread. It was recognized as one needful to the safety of monarchy itself. The true word spoken in jest might be the salvation of the throne. Shall opinion in a modern university be more autocratic than monarchy, and revoke the jester's license...