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Rashly the Minister of Marine demanded written explanation of Admiral Becerqueira's refusal, received for answer seven pages of saltiest sea language comparing His Excellency the Minister of Marine to slimiest scum of the deep. For this audacity Admiral Becerqueira spent his days in jail, emerged swearing bluer than ever...
...quail the State, they ordered from Bogle. But the large shipment of "imported Mexican quail" which arrived in Connecticut looked strangely native. Several specimens despatched to Washington were declared by Department of Agriculture experts to be U. S. birds, the big brown bobwhite quail and not the smaller, bluer Mexican...
...light would be changed in wave lengths if they proceeded from a moving source or to a moving observer,* astronomers looked through their telescopes at the far away stars and found that he was correct. They discovered that light from some stars appeared redder than normal, others appeared bluer, concluded that the red stars (the longer wave lengths) were moving away from the earth, the blue stars (shorter wave lengths) were moving toward the earth.? Last week. Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble, Mount Wilson Observatory astronomer, told visiting members of the National Academy of Sciences that he had rechecked this...
...wonder if the blue jellyfish . . . out at Point Lobes . . . have kings of their own, big jellyfish, bluer and more transparent than all the rest−and do they have royal weddings, do you suppose? Maybe...
...foggy Venezuelan morning. He twitched the Spirit of St. Louis upwards and sideways, seeking an opening in the mists and mountain peaks. He found a rift and streaked out over the Caribbean. For 100 miles seeing no land the flyer contemplated the two tinges of blue sky and bluer sea. Once he dipped to scoot cheerily close to the steamer Amsterdam. Once he scuttled through a sudden rain squall. Land notched the horizon far ahead. From there he flew over nearly nine hundred miles of "Islands in the Lesser Antilles. At St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands he got down...