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...whose very name had lost its meaning. President Roosevelt this week spoke to the world from the chill whiteness of the amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery. There was now neither armistice nor declared war; but the bodies of U.S. boys were at the bottom of the Atlantic...
...variation of this process is being perfected by Metallurgist Henry Alfred Doerner of the U.S. Bureau of Mines who claims that when a chill spray of oil is substituted for the Hansgirg cooling gas the magnesium is rendered nonexplosive by an easily removable oily film which forms on the powder grains. The process has been developed at Washington State College and will probably be used in a 12,000-ton plant at Spokane where magnesium deposits adjoin Grand Coulee's cheap power...
...Marianna moved in as Byron's housekeeper, his expenses were cut in half. Byron employed "about fourteen servants . . . besides a floating population of Venetian parasites. Unnamed and unnumbered his concubines came and went. . . ." He was surrounded with harlots and pimps and gondoliers and their . . . families. Shelley remarked with chill disdain that among Byron's boon companions were "wretches who seem almost to have lost the gait and physiognomy of man, and who do not scruple to avow practices which are not only not named, but I believe even conceived in England...
...about 100 yards astern. By that time the little 1,090-ton destroyer had begun to wheel, was steaming swiftly toward the spot where she had seen the impulse bubble. Over the spot the men on her fantail dumped eight depth charges. They sent up green geysers in the chill air. But the Greer could still hear the sub under...
...chill deadlier than winter's struck the U.S. last week-the chill of repeated Russian defeat and retreat (see p. 23). As Hitler's pincers hooked their talons toward Moscow, the eyes of the U.S. turned inevitably to the White House. In answer to that mute demand, the President this week made a formal statement...