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...squints through a microscope that Dayton's rain got its color from algae (microscopic plants) sucked up by a tornado. Full-sized tornadoes can lift heavy objects (such as signboards) high into the clouds. Even little whirlwinds can vacuum-clean the surface of a pond and deposit its green scum many miles away as discolored rain. Sometimes small fish or frogs are sucked up (and later dropped) with the water...
...rodlike detector close to the ground and listening to the sounds in his earphones: rhythmic clicks, five to 50 a minute, depending on the minerals under foot. As he walked, the clicking sped up, whirred into a roar. The man stopped, noted down the location. He had detected a deposit of the world's most coveted mineral: uranium ore, chief source of atomic energy...
...thumping Tory gain of 13,000 votes had come mostly at the expense of the rapidly evaporating Liberal Party. Bennett polled so few votes-less than one-eighth of the total-that he forfeited the ?150 election deposit intended to discourage "absurd and futile" candidacies...
...jumbo provided a nightly chance to manipulate the esophagus against a stop-watch, and the takers were many. The present record is 2 min. 3 sec. and the contest is still open; but the jumbo is as big as ever. Interest has slackened a bit now the required deposit is up to $5 but the College thirst for beer hasn't diminished. Wartime dissatisfaction with 3.2 sent veterans skipping back to the O.G. and to the jumbo they dreamed of overseas...
...year old Theodore Voutiritsa of Cambridge, had long been suspected by police, since the first safe deposit box that turned up in the case bore his name...