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Harvard's contribution to the experiment centers in great part about two giant cameras which will photograph the entire experiment from the desert floor, some twenty miles below the violent explosions in the air above new Mexico. These cameras, equipped with rotating shutters, will record the flight of the cast-off missiles covering as area of 40 to 45 degrees...
London. Overnight he turns its trim interior into a welter of littered papers, damp towels, cast-off clothes, bottles, of hair tonic, a copy of Mein Kampf - chaos as complete as if the Balkans had been dumped in the heart of respectable Kensington. Daily, through this mush, Director Bergmann stamps the floor like a bathrobed Hercules faced with an absurd but unavoidable Labor. He roars genially at nervous Colleague Isherwood: "I am sure we shall be very happy together...
Shear Sucker. At Bryants Pond, Me., Farmer Claude Cushman, who had sheared his flock during a warm spell, had to run around to the neighbors when the temperature dropped again, collect all cast-off sweaters that he could find for his shivering sheep...
...Sherman was right," says Chuck; "wonder if he got his uniforms the same place I got mine!" Sam Wolf learned the real meaning of "Penny Serenade" during one of his banquet pleas the other day. The Popps fright being a thing of the past, he failed to recover the cast-off cash, hence Stan Siskind's recent spending spree...
...lives for hours after its breathing tubes have been sealed; it is the only known creature that can live without vitamin A or C or nitrogen. Its voracity is the most catholic in the insect world-it eats paint, bedbugs, hair, grease, wallpaper, gold lettering on books, its own cast-off skin...