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Like most successful writers, Author Stern likes and approves her successful fellows, contemns her somehow threatening colleagues whose brows are higher: "I would give you the Hundred Most Massive Highbrow Living Writers, the kind who creak and heave as they thrust their shoulders at the wheel, like figures in a frieze of Modern Labour, for what Dorothy Parker can do by not quite using half the strength in her little finger." U. S. readers, who have long recognized Author
Near Aurora, Ore., Farmhand Bert Jeskey heard a boar-like bellowing from the pasture soon after sunrise. Investigating, he found an eight-foot, 800-lb., slithering, legless hulk that reared up on flippers at sight of him and lunged six feet at a thrust. Since the Pudding River was a mile and a half away and the Pacific Ocean 135 miles away by water, Jeskey refused to believe that it was a sea lion until State Police arrived and told him it was famed Sergeant Finnegan of the Oregon State Police...
Whatever its sins and indiscretions, the velocipede deserves no such tyrannical treatment. From Dunster House to Divinity the clicking of the chain and the whirring of the silver spokes are forever silenced, and Fascism has thrust its iron fist into the Yard for the first time. The insidious forces of United Shoe Machinery, General Motors, and Standard Oil, hurling the lie at those who said it couldn't happen here, have made a vital stab at the principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity...
...Paris M. Raoul Michel-May suggested to the French Academy of Sciences a new method of exterminating mosquitoes in open ponds. At present a favorite method is to spread a thin film of oil on the water. When the mosquito larvae, which breathe through tubes in their tails, thrust their tails out of water to get air, oil clogs the tubes and the larvae suffocate. M. May recommended sprinkling the water with talcum powder impregnated with a compound of chlorine and ethane which would choke the larvae to death but would not harm human beings...
...rocketry. He pointed out that the burned gas molecules shoot out of a rocket's combustion chamber at 3,000 to 4,000 ft. per sec. A rocket traveling at this speed would be 100% efficient, since all the recoil force of the molecules is turned into forward thrust...