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...Deventer that about five per cent of all cars or enclosed trucks on the road admit some amount of the gas into them. It was determined that the presence of one part of the gas in a thousand parts of the air would cause the average man to faint after inhaling the mixture for from half an hour, if he was sitting still. If moving around, the time for the mixture to have effect would be even less...
...past four months tourists to the State Capitol at Jefferson City, Mo., many of them eating as they walked, have passed into the oblong Italianate Representatives' Lounge and gaped earnestly at a small, dark, wiry man painting furiously in a faint odor of rotten eggs, while the walls slowly blossomed with mule skinners, Mormons, dancing Negroes and Mississippi boatmen. Artist Thomas Hart Benton last week had finished, and some of the most important murals in the U. S. were ready for their formal unveiling...
...carrying Minnie in a wire-fronted box. Holding the cage before the microphone, Manager Allred poked a small piece of insulated wire through a hole in the box top, tenderly prodded Minnie's belly. As the visible audience of 400 listened raptly, out over a national network went faint, wavering chirps and trills. It sounded as much like a cricket as like a canary, but that Minnie really sang there was no doubt. After the broadcast a cage was fashioned of glass and cardboard, its bottom strewn with strips of cloth and paper for mousy nesting. Press and newsreel...
...With faint dry sound...
...memory-gems, instead of knock-knocks, there was one which comes to mind today- "Judge not . . . the working of his inmost heart thou canst not see. What seems to our dim eyes a flaw may only be a scar, brought from some well fought field where we would only faint and yield...