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...dust and gas contain as much matter as all the known stars. To congeal into stars, these 1/250,000-inch dust particles would require more billions of years than the calculated age of the universe-were it not that gravitation and the pressure of light whirl the dust in cur rents and thus speed up its condensation so immeasurably that Whipple "expects to witness the birth of highly luminous and massive super-giant stars." Cosmic radio signals, which physicists have traced to the Milky Way, can also be explained by these dust currents, Whippie thinks. As the electrified particles whirl...
...their weekly parades at the Racecourse, their curio buying. It enjoyed Marine personalities like Colonel Richard Stewart Hooker, who could "roar like a sea lion, or coo like a dove." It enjoyed the Marines' practical joking, as when four leathernecks started a Communist scare by raising a red cur tain on the U.S. Embassy flagpole. The nervous International Settlement took special comfort in the Marines after Shanghai's British garrison left last year, after the Japanese got control of the Settlement's governing council last...
...because they are so desperate. Pray for them-they need it. Let us be serene, kindly and forgiving-for they know not what they do." (Night before, at a rally): "Whoever says [I have an interest in a bus line] is a dirty contemptible liar and a yellow cowardly cur...
...tenderness to animals now. He must forget now how he once made pets of mice, how he wept when his canaries sickened and died, how he gave nuts to the squirrels around the Berghof, how, when a huge crowd was gathered for the ceremonies in Vimy last summer a cur dog appeared from the forest and came through those hundreds of people straight...
...Iceland has not fared well. Pliny barely admitted the place was anything more than a myth. An anonymous 10th-Century English poet called it "a gallows of slush." Hakluyt said: "To speak of Iceland is little need; save of stockfish." Shakespeare thought of the Icelander as a "prick-eared cur." Socially conscious Poet Hugh Wystan Auden, visiting in 1936 and 1937, wrote: "There's handsome scenery but little agricultural machinery...