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...behavior of matter under stress may help the scientist in understanding the nature of the earth's crust...
...Wodehouse never hits anybody. In his new book of short stories, as in dozens of his previous volumes of fiction, there is nobody to hit. Rather, there is a pawky plenty of the same nobodies that have populated all his stories, the same fluffy crumbs off the British upper crust. In Nothing Serious, Wodehouse gathers his crumbs as gracefully as ever into amusing little heaps of no significance whatever-except as reminders that there used to be a cake...
Died. Henry DeVere Stacpoole, 88, who gave up medical practice because he "would rather write fiction on a crust than have the best practice in Harley Street," eventually turned out some 50 novels, for 30 years was one of the most popular purveyors of old-fashioned romance (The Blue Lagoon; An American at Oxford); on the Isle of Wight, where he had settled down after leaving his native Dublin...
Down the long hill he went, bent against a harassing wind, the fine snow stinging his face. Reaching Massachusetts Avenue after what seemed an eternity, Mark turned toward Harvard. Confronted constantly by virgin drifts and a light crust insufficient to support his weight, the half-frozen professor forced his aching body forward by sheer brute strength...
...week's end some 8,000 marines broke through the last thin crust of enemy resistance and poured into Hamhung. More kept coming in every hour as tanks bringing up the rear rolled across the coastal plain. Frantic photographers called to the bedraggled men, asked them to "wave and look happy." They obliged. The triumph was marred by more than 30% casualties, but the bulk of the marine division's and the 7th's survivors had reached safety and warmth. It was an epic of great suffering and great valor...