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...pistols, without shot, and of walking ten paces, Foster aimed directly at English, and English aimed directly into the air. As this produced no effect whatsoever, except a loud noise, a second exchange was ordered--by Foster. Again the aggressor aimed at English, and English again aimed straight upward...
...poured in so fast that by 1927 the company decided to drop its housedress line (which grossed $1,000,000 yearly), concentrate on uniforms. It kept expanding and creating new designs, by last year had turned out 1,300 different styles, was operating six cutting and finishing plants, grossing upward of $5,000,000 yearly...
...Faust sings, "A moi, Satan, à moi!" and throws his book into the fireplace. An electrician switches on a fan, which sends flame-colored paper streamers upward into sight of the audience. The basement maestro makes an abrupt pronouncement: "Up with him!" The stagehands lift the platform and Mephisto into the air. The audience first sees him sitting on the arm of the chair that screens the trapdoor, nonchalantly swinging his foot and cane. Meanwhile, behind the rear study wall. Marguerite (Soprano Nadine Conner) is climbing a narrow set of stairs to a platform, aided by a stagehand...
...today's Army, parachute jumping is the quickest way up. Last week three parachute generals leaped upward in the Army's top echelons. The three...
...Kuiper is sure that Venus' bands are due to rising or falling currents in its carbon-dioxide atmosphere. His theory is that where the currents are moving upward (as they do in the earth's doldrums), the fine yellow dust that forms the clouds of Venus is carried high. Where the currents move downward, the dust deck is lower, and above it lies a greater thickness of carbon dioxide. The CO2 reflects violet light better than the dust does, and this makes the down-current zones photograph brighter than the others. In light of longer wave length...