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...cheer, his last words to the enthusiastic mob were these: "Now you can crawl back under your stones. Good night!" After several quite understandable defeats truculent Candidate Smith went up to Parliament...
Helene Madison swims "free-style." which means she uses that adaptation of the Australian crawl which U. S. coaches have worked out as the fastest way in which a human being can propel itself through water. A swimmer using this stroke must have long, supple legs for much of the power comes from the hips, knees and ankles. The arms are used somewhat as in the trudgeon stroke. Helene Madison's feet are narrower than those of Johnny Weissmuller, famed male freestyler, but long enough to be good paddles. She has big hands and a tall, athletic body...
...principal difference between a dog and a man." And from the famed nursery tale, Gulliver's Travels, by Dean Jonathan Swift: "I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives [mankind] to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth...
...worst crossing any of them had ever remembered. Passengers on the ponderous Berengaria told how their ship rolled till sea water dashed over the funnels, how the steel walls of the rudder house had been squashed like a sardine tin. The Bremen, world's fastest liner, was forced to crawl for two days at five knots per hour, pouring oil on the water. In mid-ocean a gigantic wave set the ship nearly on its beam ends, knocked two teeth from the jaw of Monsignor William McKean of Bernardsville, N. J., broke the right thumb of one "Peppy" d'Albrew...
...Bedoins of the Sahara" is a resume of the lives of a nomadic people. It portrays their wanderings and their communities in the oases of the Sahara. "The Nesting of the Sea Turtles" shows how these deep sea creatures crawl upon the sand beaches once each year, to dispose of their eggs in holes dug in the sand with their flippers. Six or eight weeks later the eggs hatch in the warm sand and the baby turtles troop down to the sea to spend the rest of their lives in the water. "Elementary Animals" is a microscopic study...