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...Roman-style aqueduct tunneled under the surrounding mountains, electric pumps began sluicing 4,500,000 cu. ft. of water per day. Nearly three years later, the level of the lake lowered some 60 feet, two crumbling skeleton frameworks lay exposed. Made of oak, pine and fir, covered with woolen cloth and sheathed outside with lead studded with bronze, the saucer-bottomed ships were 220 and 235 feet long. To facilitate navigation on the tiny lake, a pair of rudders could be fixed to either end of each barge. Lead piping indicated that fountains and gardens had once decorated the broad...
...EVENING LEDGER, IT MAY HAVE BEEN SHEER COINCIDENCE BUT SHORTLY AFTER THE COLONEL WENT TO THE NEW YORK JOURNAL IN 1930 . . . THE CITY ROOM WASHROOM WAS TRANSFORMED. LIQUID SOAP DISPENSERS WERE RIPPED OUT OF THE WASHBASINS, AND RAGGED CHUNKS OF DIRTY BROWN LAUNDRY SOAP LEFT IN THEIR PLACES. THE CLOTH HAND TOWEL MACHINES WERE WRENCHED FROM THE WALLS. AND SPIKES WERE DRIVEN ON WHICH WERE HOOKED TORN BATCHES OF COARSE BROWN WRAPPING PAPER FOR TOWELS. THE LIGHT WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE CEILING AND HOT WATER WAS SHUT OFF. ... I RECALL THE CIRCUMSTANCES VIVIDLY BECAUSE I WAS OUT OF POCKET...
...Farm. The French farm woman, with her tucked up black skirts, her sabots and her head cloth, has always worked hard at home and in her husband's fields. With husbands, sons, uncles, brothers called up. she now works ever harder. Paradoxically, the measure of her ardor has been the extent of her failure...
...admires Attic culture that he wears a homespun chlamys (tunic) and sandals in all weather and all company, announced to Paris' Left Bank that he gave not one Hellenic hoot for France's war, said he would carry on as usual his courses in antique cloth-weaving, basketmaking, and rhythmics...
Willing to give five marks ($2) worth of cloth for a fat goose...