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...even far from the "mountains," is not smooth. It is covered with tiny "spicules" that jet up suddenly. Tiny only "in the solar sense," they are several hundred miles in diameter and 5,000 to 10,000 miles high. They lick up from the surface and fade away in an average of about five minutes...
...mood of the conference, grim at the start, had perked up considerably by closing day. Said one departing delegate: "I wonder if their enthusiasm will fade when they come down to earth back home." Replied another: "Why should it? It's unrealistic not to believe in miracles these days...
...Hollywood were 125 of 150 scheduled tons of equipment, including giant generators to feed the Technicolor arc lamps. Planes had flown eight tons of armor, enough to gird a Roman army of 2,500. On Manhattan's Times Square, a huge sign ballyhooing the picture was up in "fade-proof" paint...
Some fanciers of the thoroughbred fresh prefer the Derby (or the Darby, depending on your headsize). Others go for the Preakness. But to that elite Cambridge coterie of followers of those highstrung animals all other races fade into obscurity at the mere mention of the Wellesley Hoop Race...
...hocus pocus of Phi Beta Kappa meetings began to fade away in the 1830's largely as a result the work of the Harvard chapter's Edward Everett, Joseph Story, and John Quincy Adams. The Harvard chapter's change in policy probably saved Phi Beta Kappa from becoming nothing more than the oldest collegiate social organization in the United States...