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...main highroad of English literature, range from stormy thrillers to sunny farce, from the thunder of Samuel Johnson's prose to the lightning of Aldous Huxley's. They include little-known works by little-read writers as well as little read works by well-known writers: Maria Edgeworth, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Mrs. Gaskell, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, George Meredith, Thomas Love Peacock, William Hazlitt, Virginia Woolf. Few readers will like all of these stories, but almost everybody will be entertained by some of them...
...strange television affinity between crime shows and tobacco. Tracy's good friend, Ralph Bellamy, stars in Man Against Crime for Camel cigarettes; The Adventures of Ellery Queen (starring Lee Bowman) touts Phillies cigars; Dragnet (with Jack Webb) hawks Fatimas, and The Plainclothesman (Ken Lynch) works for Edgeworth tobacco. Like many things about TV, this fact puzzles Tracy: "I guess there must be some tie-up between smoking and tension...
...Hiroshima's dust had hardly settled when English geophysicists suggested that polar icecaps might be blasted away entirely and, since the glaciers are tag-end relics of an all-but-ended ice age, the icecap would in all probability never reform. Some years ago an Australian geophysicist, Sir Edgeworth David, speculated on what would happen if the Antarctic icecap were dissolved. Sir Edgeworth concluded that the world's sea level would rise about 50 feet (others calculated as much as 100), inundating every seaport; climatic zones would be shifted; violent quakes would rack the earth as the Antarctic...
...bard Ursula--and being not of mind to destroy the aura of the era doth present said play unexpurgated. They do prove themselves Leatherheads, for they do Overdo said masque in Quarlous manner, guzzling ale in lien of Cokes, articulating so to Troubleall, and showing more than respectable Edgeworth of petticoat which scarce would Winwife, much lest two matriculated freshmen...
...provide unlimited resources to the U. S. He was merely stressing the point that coal has been discovered both by the Byrd expeditions and by other expeditions ... in the Antarctic continent. . . . Coal seams up to seven feet in thickness have been discovered . . . and estimates by such men as Sir Edgeworth David and Dr. Griffith Taylor indicate that in extent the coal reserves are possibly second only to those of the U. S. (See Antarctic Adventure and Research by Dr. G. Taylor, Appleton...