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...huts, and the paths across the ice over which the loads of supplies and equipment were carried. The lighting within the glass case is so controlled as to produce an exact representation of the polar day, growing gradually in brilliance, then fading away into Antarctic night, when the beacon-lights atop the wireless towers shine out across the frigid wastes...
...Beacon Hill felt a thrill of horror creep up its asphalt as it became conscious of the most recent number of the New Yorker. Even the Back Bay may have quaked a little to discover its secretary of the navy quoted as writing to the president of Harvard College; "Dear Lawrence--Long a student of heraldry, I have satisfied myself that the only families north of the Mason and Dixon line entitled to bear arms are the Winthrops and Saltonstalls." This was apropos of the question of putting a coat of arms on the gable end of the new unit...
...slacking. "All right, Harold; let's go," he had said, as he might have suggested "Let's go to the movies." To a small group of drenched spectators, "Somebody want to crank me up?" The light of photographers' flares and the stabbing finger of a revolving beacon picked out the white Lockheed at the head of the runway for a moment. Then a roar from the supercharged Wasp motor, a streak down the field, and the Winnie Mae's navigating lights were blinking a "goodbye" from the North...
...Beanlands and Shap trudged off through the desert to find help; Jimmy sat and waited. They never came back. After several days Jimmy nearly despaired. Then clouds of migratory grasshoppers dropped from the sky. He cooked and ate them, kept life going till a cruising Chinese pilot saw his beacon. Author Garnett ends his story thus: "When they fell in waterless desert places they died; where they passed they left desert ; they sprouted wings and flew. Their seed sprang again in wingless armies from the earth. They had no reason and little that might be called instinct. All their movements...
...more groups of the organization are engaged for the summer in prominent eastern resorts. Lamson will direct the first of these, which plays regularly at the Fo'cas'le at the Hotel Rockmere in Marblehead. The second, led by E. R. Beacon 1GB, will operate at Silver Beach, Falmouth, in cooperation with the University Players...