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...time. But the eggs are cold and vulcanized, the bacon soggy, the toast black, the coffee thin and acid-and the waitress doesn't care. And at night the intrepid traveler is not surprised to return and find the room still unmade, the bureau still undusted and the damp towel still on the untidied washstand. If the night is chill he may as well go sit in the lobby: no one knows where the blankets are. If he tries to phone for help he will get nothing but a dull, buzzing noise...
Nearly all week the skies over Moscow were dull, dripping, cold. One evening, when damp workers were hurrying home or to night-shift jobs, the familiar voice of Announcer Yuri Levitan boomed at them from loudspeakers in the squares: "Govorit Moskva! [Moscow speaking!] Citizens, today at 7:40 there will be transmitted over the radio important news. Listen! . . . Citizens, listen...
...receiving-set supply problem has finally been licked. A compact plastic-sprayed set (all-wave, with considerable range) is so resistant to tropic damp that it can even be submerged under water for hours without damage. Other difficulties have been met with diesel powder, well-equipped studios...
...rest, any frog may look like a winner. Neither giants nor runts are apt to be champions. Frogs are simply observed in their natural surroundings, and chosen on the basis of performance. Once they join a stable, they are kept in dark, damp, healthful surroundings. Just before being sent into competition, they are subjected to enforced idleness...
...Metropolitan Museum officials feverishly sought some shelter where their millions of dollars' worth of art would be safe from Nazi bombs. Even earlier, various vacant buildings in Westchester and Putnam Counties had been inspected and found wanting. An abandoned shale mine near Kingston seemed safe but too damp. At last a Metropolitan trustee suggested Whitemarsh Hall...