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...Michigan. They climbed the wide, stone front steps flanked by two enormous iron urns, to view the treasures inside: crystal-and-brass chandeliers, a heaving sea of mildewed objects, corniced walnut wardrobes, marble-topped bureaus-some 10,000 numbered items, stacked in the halls, standing in the serried, airless bedrooms. A dozen garlanded chinaware cuspidors clustered beside a bundle of lace curtains. Metal Indians and painted washstands stood on the vast drawing-room floor, while a gleeful Saratoga schoolboy banged at a bandy-legged grand piano. Love's Tribute and Love's Stratagem leaned in steel engraving against...
...major, his glasses clouded with steam and his inflated face slick with sweat, owed $8 to a sharp-eyed little captain. He asked: 'Do you want it now, or will you take it off the corpse?' One by one the men drifted off to the narrow, airless bunks assigned them. The wardroom was empty...
...Englander going dutifully to seed. Mr. Marquand has told his story three times (the others: The Late George Apley, Wickford Point); Director King Vidor had only one shot at his. His ending is box office, his story not sharply pointed, but he does manage to convey the airless but comfortable feeling of Boston, the pitifully habit-bound horizon of his Pulham (Robert Young), and to turn out a half-dozen sequences that are superb cinema...
Astronomers have long known that Mars was dry, cold, almost airless. Years ago Dr. Adams found that the oxygen content of the Martian atmosphere must be less than 1 % of that in earth's air (TIME, Jan. 15, 1934). But many astronomers feel that the seasonal changes of the planet's markings must be due to some type of vegetation. For many years Dr. Percival Lowell's hypothesis, that the "canals" on Mars' surface were irrigation canals, prolonged the Man from Mars' existence. He is not wholly dead yet. Animal life may have flourished there...
Jimmy was shut up in a dark, airless cell in the prison's cellar, with a ceiling so low that he could not stand upright. They showed his wife the cell later. They kept him drugged, presumably to make him talk: she counted 36 hypodermic punctures on his body...