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...robot clicked and whirred. Pivoting at knees and waist, it slowly stood...
...unhappy mischance, it fell into the torrent. Loud was the wailing at the sad event; equally great was the pleasure of the assembled multitudes when one of the members of the throng stepped forward, pulled up his pants to his knees, and ran into the water to his waist. Seizing the floating trophy, he was about to remount the bank, when he was seized with the happy idea that it was now his, and his alone...
...after the bloodletting, Spanish warships were still plumping shells into a few rebellious villages, there were snipers still on the rooftops of various towns, but the great Socialist uprising was over. Strikers, however, were still out. In Madrid, Spanish soldiers were called in from the streets. Stripped to the waist they labored in the city's deserted bakeries, baking bread...
...suit has a head and body of steel, with grotesque protuberances for eyes and something that looks like a nose. Of rubber reinforced by interwoven copper strips, the arms and legs become flexible when subjected to high underwater pressure. The two parts of the suit join at the waist instead of around the neck. The diver goes down without an airhose, carries an oxygen bottle, a respirator, caustic soda to absorb carbon dioxide. Aboard the Terminal last week this fantastic diving suit was called "Eleanor...
...bathysphere junkets for five years. Twenty-five years before that she was born in Suffern, N. Y. Putting aside dolls at an early age, she shortly began dissecting snakes, toads and moles, producing grotesque breeds of chickens. She explored stream bottoms by going under with rocks roped to her waist, a long glass tube to breathe through. Graduated from Connecticut College for Women, she conducted a thrill-hungry matron through the wilds of British Guiana, returned to Manhattan for an M. A. in zoology at Columbia. After showing the Rockefeller Institute's famed Alexis Carrel that she was steady-fingered...