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...People was the work of an organization called Mass-Observation, which for three years scrutinized the Lancashire cotton-mill town of Bolton. Sample observation: A man aged 66 wrote: "Why I drink Beer, because it is food, drink, and medicine to me, my Bowels work regular as clockwork, and I think that is the Key to health, also lightening affects me a lot, I get such a thirst from Lightening, and full of Pins and Needles, if I drink from the tap it's worse, Beer makes me better the more I drink better I feel, neither does...
...night last week an explosion rattled the windows of the inn where Dormoy lived. Behind the broken door of his bedroom, Dormoy lay dying on the floor, his head a bloody mess. After he died, the police who were supposed to guard him found fragments of a clockwork bomb under his bed. His enemies had got revenge...
...teetotaler, he probably works harder, more soberly and methodically than any gossip columnist living. Until his start in columning (1934), he swears he had never been in a nightclub. Now, six nights a week, he goes to 14 Manhattan nightspots. Methodically he leaves home at 11, returns like clockwork at 4:30 to write his column, always makes his 7 a.m. deadline. Punctually at 3 p.m. he goes to his office, where he is available to tipsters until seven...
Myadestes, less embarrassed, opened its beak and began to warble to a whir of clockwork which sounded like distant thunder. All day, weekdays and Sundays, with an audience or without, the obliging bird repeated its performance every hour on the hour...
...seen in the U. S., one of the three largest in the Occidental world. But that was not enough. Sculptor Milles wanted the bird in his statue to move and sing. With the help of engineers from Rockefeller Center's Museum of Science and Industry, he contrived a clockwork mechanism to make the bird flap its wings, sashay back & forth, and open its beak, and a phonograph mechanism to play a record of bird-like music...