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...long Coast Guardsmen, fishermen and Jersey boatmen plied the choppy seas, trying to distinguish between the floating bodies of the dead and the floating bodies of the living. The former were left to wash ashore with the tide...
...Wilhelm II's costliest whimsies as Kaiser and All Highest was to have the regalia of the Holy Roman Empire exactly duplicated in authentic jewels and precious metals. So perfect are these copies that only experts can distinguish them from the originals. Last week they were brought solemnly to Nuremberg and mysteriously displayed at the sixth annual National Socialist Party Congress...
...months 20 times. It begins to crawl at 9 months, toddles and babbles words on the first day of its second year. At 3 the child can name keys, knives, pencils and answer correctly whether it is boy or girl. At 6 it can count to 13, distinguish nickels, dimes and quarters...
...Adams observes that children lie glibly, ask many a question for no particular reason, often fail to distinguish between cause and effect. ("The fire engine stopped because the wheel is not going around.") Declares Dr. Adams: "The average child of 18 months cries 'No,' often and emphatically without having the slightest intellectual conception of its meaning. It screams 'No' decisively when a toy or a sweet is taken from it, and . . . when it is told to do something it considers disagreeable or unnecessary...
...almost every sport there is someone whose nickname is "Wild Bill." "Wild Bill" Cummings got his from his father who was a racetrack driver from 1907 to 1921. Young Cummings was born within earshot of the Indianapolis Speedway, learned to distinguish Barney Oldfield's car by its sound, promised his mother that some day he would win the 500-mile race. He gathered speed slowly, first as a Western Union messenger boy, later as a taxidriver. When he was 16, he began driving in motorcycle races, graduated to automobiles two years later. He finished fifth in the 500-mile...