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...Richard the Lion-Hearted, life seems always to have become most trying for Sister Aimee after a visit to the Holy Land. Having just returned from Palestine, she took a dip in the Pacific at Ocean Park, Calif, on May 18, 1926, after which she was not heard of until some six weeks later when she appeared in Mexico. Airplanes, boats, divers searched for her body. One diver was drowned. Although she was identified as the woman seen at Carmel during the interim with Kenneth G. Ormiston, Angelus Temple radioman, her story of being kidnaped and held for ransom...
...find that the present warm wave makes no appreciable contribution to the solution of the final examination problem may find some consolation in turning their tired eyes up to Saint Paul. In that storied town of the late "middle border" an increase of temperature merely means an extra dip in the waters of Minnetonka for Harvard graduates of as little as one year's standing who have taken the precaution of joining the local Harvard club...
...assignment (TIME, April 21). Nothing could have been more characteristic than his parting gesture-the performance of an acrobatic feat never before accomplished: an "inverted falling leaf." Above Anacostia, naval air station, Lieut. Williams rolled a Curtiss Hawk biplane onto its back, throttled the motor, let one wing dip. Wheels to the sky, pilot's head to the ground, the little ship began swinging back and forth, dropping rapidly like an ever-lengthening pendulum. Ingeniously averting the dread "inverted spin" Williams landed, gave to the Navy his valuable findings on the mastery of inverted flight to promote safety...
...instead of the industrial curve, by which the business of retailers as a whole is affected. At the start of the crash, industry kept up to about its former pace, and it was not until the crash was well under way that the industrial curve took a decided downward dip...
...aquatic ardor was effectively quenched when he found that a premature dip in the foot bath was hardly pleasant--especially when fully dressed...