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...Hillman-Curl...
...afresh every evening, also water in his basin, and this astonishing rite was performed with scrupulous regularity for nearly 40 years. . . . [There was also] Disraeli, twice premier of England, whom Lytton Strachey describes as 'a vainglorious creature racked by gout and asthma, dyed and corseted with a curl on his miserable old forehead kept in its place all night by a bandana handkerchief!' . . . Kant, while living in Holland, lived in 13 different places and changed his abode 24 times; Voltaire [was] inordinately vain, unscrupulous, once a forger and seemingly ever tempted by suicide. . . . William James often thought...
...Wellesley girls. . . . oh, those creatures!" Polly Moran's eyes narrowed and expressed what words could not "Menace! That's the word I want--that's what those girls are!" she snapped so that her curl papers shook...
...higher above the earth than any balloon has ever ascended lies a series of curved shells of electrified air which scientists call the ionosphere. From this ionized region of upper space radio waves carom and curl around the earth. For two years Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism has had under way a program of ionosphere research mustering a platoon of scientists and ranging from the tropics to the far North. At the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, Dr. Edward Olson Hulburt kept track of the work, conferred with the workers. Last week in the Physical Review...
...nements du 6 Février et jours suivants, better known as "The Committee of the Bloody Days." Its chairman, Deputy Bonnevay of the Rhone, boasts a pair of the finest sidewhiskers in all France. He heard things last week to make them curl...