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Last spring a rather torse message from Palestine told of an injury sustained by Kirsopp Lake when "bumped by a camel". Just how a camel might bump was a question which perplexed Harvard minds, steeped in their accidental provincialism...
...switches, the robot is set on a track containing twelve forks at each of which a wrong turn leads to a dead-end. The robot is first set to take the turn to the right at every fork. When this proves to be wrong and results in a bump against the dead-end, the "rat" goes into reverse, backs up past the fork, goes forward again, taking the correct left turn. This resets the controls in such a way as to enable the "rat" on the second try to negotiate the maze from start to finish without a single error...
Sergeant Jurney decided to beat one more covert before quitting for the day. The motorcade drove back to Washington to the Hotel Shoreham to ask Bernard B. Robinson, Hopson's "Washington representative", whether he knew where his boss was. At the desk of the Shoreham whom should Mr. Jurney bump into but beefy, bad-tempered Chairman John J. O'Connor of the House Rules Committee, who captured "Pimpernel" Hopson fortnight...
...Akron, Ohio, last week Radio Announcer Graham McNamee received nothing worse than a bad bump on the head when a soap box mounted on wheels and driven by one Paul C. Brown of Oklahoma City coasted down a 1,181-ft. hill and knocked him and his assistant off their feet, near the finish line of the All-American Soap Box Derby which they were trying to broadcast. At the crash, timid Mrs. Betty Searles fainted. After it, daring Maurice E. Bates of Anderson, Ind. won the Soap Box Derby and a four-year college scholarship offered by Chevrolet Motor...
...band again. More precinct returns. More courtesy to the dead. The two twin-bellies roll in time to the music. The bellies never bump; the owners attached stand six feet away from each other...