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...more. But people still try. Louis M. Lyons writes that "Boston has probably more reform organizations per square foot than any other great city." But few people seem really to care. While sky highways have been built over much of the North End, and a parking lot will someday burrow underneath the Common, the middle mostly gathers years. When the Museum of Natural History left its ancient quarters by Berkeley Street, the building wasn't destroyed as it should have been; Bonwit-Teller's came, with curtains, and the buildings looks even older yet. Lacking high buildings, long vistas...
Klauber tells how rattlesnakes hunt. Their eyes are pretty good, but in darkness they depend on the "pits" in the sides of their heads. These are true senses, responding to infra-red (heat) radiation like soldiers' snooperscopes. In the darkest night or at the bottom of the darkest burrow, the snake can "see" a mouse or a squirrel by the warmth of its skin...
...being visited by a pretty young girl who claims to be the subject of the biography he is currently writing. The professor is suspicious, because his subject has been dead for a hundred years. A true historian, he says: "I, for example, never allow myself to be inspired. I burrow. . ." The play has a few serious overtones, resulting from the plight of a man inspired in spite of himself, but the style is always light and satiric in a capable translation by Stephen Gilman and Harry W. Rodgers...
...bill (TIME, Jan. 30 et seq.) was nearing an end, the opposition was wheezing its last, the votes to pass the bill seemed well in hand. When South Dakota's comma-conscious Republican Senator Francis Case rose to speak, it was the signal for other Senators to burrow deeper into their newspapers or strike up desultory conversation with their neighbors. But by the time Francis Case sat down, he had shaken the Senate to its foundations...
...case of seasonal aggressions in the Hutch. The proposed tower, resting upon a feeble arch, would be as shaky as are these fabricated claims. Winthrop's Gore Hall will remain impervious even if the Leveretts, having tried in vain to beg or steal, return to element and burrow...