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...most exciting scenes of all, however, are the result of a disappointment and a last minute change of plans. After full permission had been granted, the Soviet government decided nevertheless to prohibit the expedition's passing through Russia, and so it became necessary to cross the Himalayas. The trucks crept painfully over the narrow icy passes, and the photographers produced their masterpieces. The edge of the road would crumble into the valley below, and for agonizing seconds a truck would lurch and then hold. Sometimes the risk was too great, and there was no way through except by means...
...green light crept across the table and hit Alice right in the eyes. To make matters worse, the polished wood of the chair had turned to cast iron beneath her, and so she made her way over to the sofa, stretching herself out flat upon her stomach. This was much more comfortable. The blinding green light was quite far away now, which made it much more difficult to read. But she had been getting sleepy for ever so long now, with one page looking just like the next, so she didn't see that it at all mattered...
...sang the tender aria Vissi d'arte prone. Margaret Anglin once stalked out onto the Carnegie Hall stage to declaim Electra's grief, was appalled to find a cat peering out of her flowing Greek gown. Once when Mischa Levitzki was performing in Carnegie Hall, a mouse crept close to the piano, sat up when the pianist played softly, scuttled off when he played loudly, returned for the pianissimi, required four men to catch him. Performing last week in, St. Louis, plump French Pianist Robert Casadesus added a lively chapter to the chronicle of musical mischances...
...chemical analyses to prove their worth, but also the staff mit to regular examinations. Yet even the most who cook and serve in the halls are made to sub-modern scientific precautions have failed to protect the University at all times, and infections like the present one have inevitably crept...
...blue." Then he was as happy, he felt, as he could ever be. A rainbow at that height was not an arc but a perfect circle. He could dive and turn to watch the shadow of his plane on the clouds. Down below him the yellow wraith of gas crept "pantherlike over the scarred earth, curling down into dugouts, coiling and uncoiling at the wind's whim." In the networks of wires and trenches, the miles of invisible men, walking, talking, fighting, dying, the great chaos of war always seemed insanely futile from the air. From the new perspective...