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...straight lines. Everything curves. The world has an end but no boundary. It is like an orange with the rind pared down to nothing and the pips taken out. Within and around that imaginary sphere which remains of the orange, intangible forces wave in every direction. Some waves bump and dampen each other's motion until they have no movement left. But their energy is not lost. It goes into other waves which may bump and merge and thereby strengthen each other. Electrons and protons form and attract each other. They create atoms of matter, the atoms molecules, the molecules...
...witnesses he desired. Those witnesses who were present gave feeble testimony. Long before the Hoover arrival Tailorman Sommers had called Mr. Hoover a "nigger- lover," adding that he "ought to be killed," that "if he comes to Miami he will be killed." Cashier Callahan had boasted: "Someone should bump him off. . . . I wouldn't be afraid to do it myself if he came to Miami...
Patrons of the University Theatre were probably not on hand last night to see Feagan and his pals "bump off" their victim. They know that "Flash" the famous movie canine, got "Feagan's gang" on the University screen all during the first part of the week, and that the desperadoes of "The Dreamland Cafe Below the Deadline" in the picture "Shadows of the Underworld" could not possibly injure the genial traffic officer...
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...trip to Colonel Green's airport at Dartmouth, Massachusetts, a one hour flight each way. The other flight will in all probability be to either the Worcester or Hartford airport. While the pilots for the flight have not been announced as yet the foremost candidates are: W. N. Bump '29. T. P. Sproul '29, L. D. Parker '31, and P. H. Moon '32. This flying time, plus that of the regular operation at the Boston Airport, should enable the club to maintain its regular fall average of between 70 and 90 hours...