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...trotted down Komotine's cobbled streets, the inhabitants hung out of their windows to see what was happening. Curfew was in force because the rebels had shelled the town with 65 mm. cannon a few nights before. Out in the countryside the scent of almond blossoms filled the damp air. Overhead the sky was clear and stars shone back from puddles of water and the shallow streams we crossed. Occasionally, glowworms, kicked up by the horses' hooves, lit the path...
Stout, stern-faced Jesuit Riquet seems to Parisians almost a one-man revival in himself. Each Sunday during Lent-even when the warm promise of spring brought crowds to the sidewalk cafés and the banks of the Seine-49-year-old Father Riquet filled the cold, damp, dark interior of Notre Dame to capacity with the power of his preaching...
...other College building, old Gore Hall symbolized the Harvard of 1873. It was a picturesque structure, with high, thin towers that looked down on the bare west side of the Yard. But despite its quiet charm, Gore was totally inadequate as a library. It was poorly lighted and so damp that moisture collected on the books while one was reading them...
...first impression of Konitsa, as we bumped into the main square at the foot of the town, was that the shellfire had not done much damage. The houses are solid affairs built of grey stone with ivy and moss growing on the eternally damp walls. The shells merely seemed to have chipped their Turkish-built solidity...
...Comes Out Here. Hogan developed a simplified system: for the transmitter, a photoelectric scanner that "read" copy from a revolving cylinder; for the receiver, an electrolytic printer that left a thin metal deposit on damp paper (it came out dry). The paper cost a dollar for a 400-ft. roll, enough to last a subscriber for a month...