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Next day the family and crew built a flimsy shelter with stones and a piece of fabric stripped from the plane. From clambering over the rocks in thin shoes, the children's feet were bruised and bleeding. New shoes were fashioned from life preserver covers. Soup and coffee were warmed over an alcohol flame. As the second night began the group split a quart of champagne which Mrs. Hutchinson had saved...
...Hopi either goads the snakes into biting a soft substance such as a ball of cotton or soft cloth or "milks'" the snakes immediately before the dance. The "milking'' process is done by holding the rattler behind the head and having it strike into a fabric or parchment tightly drawn across the mouth of a jar or glass, thus forcing the venom out of the sacs into the receptacle. This would prevent fatality from a strike and it is needless to believe the Indians are not struck during the ceremony. One point of your story is purely...
Because the iris is so fragile a fabric of vessels, nerves and muscles, it is difficult to hold the sutures with which an eye surgeon might attempt to mend a tear. Ordinarily the surgeon contents himself with cutting off the loosened bits of iris and guarding the eye against infection. This leaves the pupil a jagged hole, which is more fascinating than ugly...
...ship is intended for long-distance patrol flight, heavy bombing. Except for fabric coverings of wing and tail surfaces, it is built of metal, principally aluminum. Four Curtiss engines will be mounted on the 100-ft. wing. Hull length: 70 ft. (DO-X dimensions: wingspread 157 ft.; length...
...levee theme, developed fully in "Ol' Man River" when the Negro chorus comes on stage, sweating under bales of cotton, is the kernel around which Show Boat's music grew. Composer Kern wrote the song for Negro Paul Robeson. Then around it he wove his melodic fabric to fit the libretto which Oscar Hammerstein II craftily extracted from Edna Ferber's novel. Paul Robeson was to have sung in the original U. S. production but it was delayed. Contracts called him to London. He sang in the London show, had his great success. He was in last...