Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Concealed Weapon. In Cape Town, South Africa, a patient at the Groote Schuur General Hospital complained of a stomachache, felt better after the removal of a ten-inch knife which he guessed had been there ever since a brawl three years before...
...names of places intimately associated with his experience. Burnt Norton was a Gloucestershire man or near which he lived for a while. East Coker is a Somerset village which was the home of his ancestors. The Dry Salvages (accented like assuages) is a group of rocks off Cape Ann, Mass. Little Gidding was a lyth-Century religious community established by Nicholas Ferrar. Each of the poems has not only its earthly-mystical locals but its season of the year and its Aristotelian element as well - which for which is not in every case clear. Of the first, the season seems...
...cape itself affords a fairly good defensive position-a narrow neck of land with some mountains at its base which make an impressive sight from ancient Carthage across the Gulf of Tunis. It is not nearly as wild as Bataan, for it has open olive groves and flat fields. It is 18 miles by 35. It has three small airports which can easily be neutralized. For some time the Axis has been building wooden jetties which can service landing barges...
...concludes Eye-man Gordon Lynn Walls (of Bausch & Lomb) in the current Journal of Applied Physics. Dr. Walls's theories will hardly quiet the old argument as to whether the bull sees red, or merely the movement of the matador's cape. Dog lovers will continue to protest the thought that their pets live in a colorless grey world.* But Biologist Walls outlines a hypothesis of color vision new to the layman. The ability to see colors Dr. Walls links directly to visual acuity-the ability to see well. He points out that the vertebrates with the greatest...
...many miles from Cape Town, their spirits spontaneously combusted. At wayside stations they smashed windows of other trains, broke open fruit trucks, shattered hotel windows, damaged shop fronts, plastered white civilians with whatever their hooch-hot hands could find to throw. Near the Touws River junction, where locomotives are changed, the switch had to be made in the open veld: the crew was afraid to take the train into the station. As a train from the Orange Free State passed by, the mulattoes smashed long rows of its carriage windows with bottles and fruit...