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...walls to safety before descending himself, haggard, dirty, miraculously alive. For weeks, after that, he was in and ahead of the front lines. Twice he was wounded. Grenade fragments ripped his legs, knocked him down and out of action. But when other corpsmen tried to carry him back, he crawled off the litter, sent them to another wounded man. Then a shellburst shattered his arm. He lashed a rifle stock to the arm, managed to crawl hundreds of yards to safety...
...Professor thinks he is likely to become more & more energetic, find the earth more & more stimulating. In the dim eons of prehistoric time, animals were unable even to crawl (because of lack of enough energy in their cells), and oxygen is a comparative newcomer (1,500,000,000 years ago) to the earth...
Moments as strange as this, in which the proceedings are questionable, make the flesh crawl; while the picture's flat actualities, in which truth appears unquestionable, make the head swim and the stomach turn...
...closed door and up against the outer bulkhead. The forward elevator, weighing 32 tons, popped up from the flight deck, its plungers blown from their sockets. In a control room in the towering island structure Lieut. William Simon was flung against the overhead. He came to and managed to crawl through a door. Simon was one of three men to escape; 30 died inside. On the gallery deck men were trapped inside jammed doors and baked to death by the breath of fire which reached 900° F. in their sealed compartments...
...wastelands are designed only to throw the spotlight of ridicule upon us, thus freeing the richly deserving J. Bernard Mathes, whose unshaven face grins stupidly before us daily, of that oblivion. Julian is so cheap, incidentally, he makes out P.V.'s for his subway fare--when he doesn't crawl under the rail...