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...that instant a stage trick of lighting makes the background fade out, and a scene of a barnyard as a hen sees it comes into the visitor's view. The rooster is enormous (see cut). The loudspeaker continues: ". . . for there is a social system in the barnyard. One hen ... can peck another hen . . . without being pecked back, and a third hen can peck still a fourth . . . without fear of retaliation. The rooster stands at the head of this social system, but beneath him,' in a definite social order, are arranged the various hens. This social system does...
...scene is a movie screen. After several flashes of main titles, names of producers, photographers, men who record, direct, edit, there is heard the mellifluous voice of an unseen commentator. A slow fade-in on a bathroom--small, title less, and complete. Five little tots pile into the foreground...
Almost anything can happen to a track meet. Stars may dip below the horizon for a brief period or for over, others may appear from nowhere to shine in all their brilliance for a week, only to fade back into oblivion. And so it was Saturday. Among the upsets was Columbia's Ben Johnson who was dethroned in the hundred, and failed to even qualify in the broad jump. Johnson's poor performance has been laid by some to a mental condition imposed upon him by the memory of a torn muscle acquired on the same track a year...
...Action Francaise'. So that is what it is." She look-reading in the newspapers lately a lot about the ed at Alice a few moments and then walked over to the sofa and took the notebook out of the hands of the weary girl. Alice saw the green light fade ever further and listened vaguely to the muttering of the Red Queen as she fell asleep...
...many times in the past has this idea been envisaged, only to fade into semi-oblivion; dimmed by delay, criticism and the force of more pressing problems. Through the depression years, when millions were relying on alms for life, bread and medical care, the idea of social insurance loomed ever higher as a vital need when the time should present itself for the country's reorganization. Though the proverbial horse had fled, it seemed better to lock the door once again than to forget entirely and to move on in willful blindness. Yet the idea then seemed too large...