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...warm and sunny up there. The workers were joshing each other about the softness of their jobs. Suddenly there was a jar as a corner bracket snapped and tilted the great platform. "It gave a funny shudder and lurched," said Lambert. In an instant another corner came loose. ''I felt everything slipping. There was nothing to hang to. So I hollered and jumped into the net. I hit the net just before the staging struck it. The net sagged slowly and then the ropes popped and the net gave way with a sound like thunder. It was like...
...tiny yellow Aeronca, at $1,355 a Porterfield Zephyr. At $2,468 was the Rearwin Sportster, which flew in from Kansas City on $10.68 in fuel. Speediest looking of the little planes was the Ryan STA, only all-metal job as cheap as $4,885. In a higher bracket were the bigger ships like Bellanca ($23,000), Beechcraft C17R ($14,500), Stinson Reliant ($7,985), Waco ($5,395), Luscombe ($5,500), Monocoupe ($3,825), Argonaut ($5.450), Fairchild 24 ($5,590), stainless steel Fleetwing ($18,500), each with room for several passengers in luxurious automobile-like cabins. Great majority were cabin...
Last Monday six football men, including Dave Glueck, Bob Green, Ben Smith, Verne Struck, Cliff Wilson, and Stuart Zimman, reported for practice. Only Verne Struck has earned a place in the top bracket, replacing Leavitt White at guard. Coach Fesler's alternate quintet will probably be made up of Grondahl and Shirk, forwards; Heckkel and White, guards; and Herrick, center...
...athlete's' foot), 71 to insects (e. g., scabies), 56 to protozoa (e. g., malaria), 13 to spirochetes (e. g., syphilis) and five to Rickettsia (e. g., rocky mountain spotted fever). Affiliated with these nefarious swarms are 25 scarcely identifiable "inclusion bodies" or Chlamydozoa which cause a bracket of diseases including smallpox, rabies, parrot fever...
...have never attempted to bracket myself with Chekhov. He was mentioned only as historical background...