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...eternal equilibrium. Medieval man saw the world as something set in motion by the hand of God; he found peace in rooms whose lack of furniture ("movables") gave spacious tranquillity to his austere thoughts. His dinner table was set up on a trestle, promptly removed when he had eaten. Since that time, man has come to abhor the vacuum of space: he still talks of "setting the table," but in fact his furniture is almost as stable as the four walls which surround it, and much more important. Where once the human hand created the bare minimum, the machine...
Detective Henry Wittenberg had eaten too much. He had also won his first two matches, in the Olympic wrestling trials last week, so easily that he scarcely worked up a sweat. Feeling heavy in the midriff and afraid of exceeding the 191 Ib. weight, Wittenberg decided on a little road work. As he stepped on to the darkened Iowa State College track, Wrestler Wittenberg tripped and fell, fracturing a bone in his ankle...
...lonely cabin near the Sikanni River in Northern British Columbia, Trapper John Pich, 38, lay abed. Two days before he had eaten tainted food. Now his belly was bloated and he was in mortal agony. Primitive John Pich thought he would die if the poison was not taken from his stomach...
...Beware the servants of Armstrong; for they poreth mightily over the Racing Form and the Tip Sheet, but they heedeth not the spirit of the horse on that day nor that which the horse hath eaten at Breakfast; and I say verily they will have their reward...
...bill each student individually for the number of meals he ate ever his contract. Since that time, however, the check-off system has been installed which could deal with contract variations with no increase in labor cost. Record could be kept of the number of meals an individual has eaten in a given week in reference to his contract, and he could pay by coupon for those which exceeded the limit...