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...population is dying out from the top as well as from the bottom. Winter is so terrible up there and their stock has so petered out that the oncoming of fall is called the suicide season. The old people just can't face another winter and so they bump themselves off. . . . Down the road from me a piece lives a family which it would be extremely difficult to disentangle. The father has had children by his wife, his housekeeper and his eldest daughter. But this is by no means usual, for generally the Downeaster is too stingy to have...
...simplest way to explain it is to say that we have put knees on our automobiles. Each front wheel will be attached individually to the chassis by its own soft spring. When it encounters a bump or a hole, it will rise or fall independently, as your leg is lifted or straightened by its knee without affecting your other leg or the equilibrium of your body. The result will be that the wheel, not the passenger, will...
Blind men ran their fingers over a Nazi hump-&-bump manifesto in Braille which keynoted "Vote...
...play to lure the animal from its prison, all to no avail. Park employes feared that, if frightened, the buck might plunge over the brink and be destroyed, as its mate had been. Last week the buck's predicament, by now a national news story, brought Superintendent Gardiner Bump of New York's Conservation Department to the scene. But before Mr. Bump could go into action, the buck saved itself. Gently urged by two wardens it walked unassisted to a spot where the ledge sloped least steeply to the gorge's bottom. As some experts had predicted...
...pair of stuffed deer on rollers. Park Superintendent Frank Haight had almost decided that the deer should be left alone until it recovered from its lameness, when a message came from Albany ordering all rescue efforts to cease until the arrival of the State's Game Superintendent Gardiner Bump...