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...Vagabond is fit to faint as his sainted Aunt Harriet used to say. Such doings! The old town abandoned itself last night to the spirit of revelry and the Vagabond from the shelter of the Subway Pagoda watched the swirling crowds in their mad career after excitement. Life, he mused, as a Freshman draped a fraternal arm about his shoulders, is a strange thing. Dexterously the Vagabond transferred the affections of the nebulous romantic to a nearby column and went on thinking about life...
Japanese schoolgirls, fragile as butterflies, small as pixies, must not faint at sight of blood. To test their courage seven Tokyo high school girls gathered last week around a white cloth in the centre of which they had drawn a circle. After a solemn soprano chant the maidens pricked their fingers deeply, held them over the circle until it grew red and the cloth became the flag of Japan. This flag the seven schoolgirls dispatched to Crown Prince Chichibu's crack 3rd Regiment which is part of the Imperial forces still holding Shanghai...
...Naval Observatory signaled "Go." Lieut. Brown pulled his switch. A strip of rocky earth a mile long by 200 ft. wide heaved up slowly, settled with roar and dust. At the distant earthquake observatories, the seismographs registered faint squiggles. Thus man knew that he had shaken the earth, made it quiver, trifling though that quiver...
...revelations from the Bruce plates include the faint ninth satellite of Saturn, Phoebe, numerous characteristics of the Magellanic Clouds, the discovery in them of 2000 variables and the "Period Luminosity" relation (one of the most efficient measuring tapes for the scale of the universe). At least 30,000 spiral nebulse have also been located by means of the Bruce Telescope...
Forty-five minutes later Chief Carpenter William Huerter, standing waist deep in the turbulent sewer a block below Philip Street, thought he heard faint cries. Then he saw a head bobbing toward him through the darkness. Gripping the bottom of the ladder with one hand, with the other he grabbed a man's limp body just before the filthy current swept into a 75-ft. down-drain. A rope pulled the half-conscious Debo up through the Grand Street manhole, 800 ft. from his starting point. Hospitalized, John Debo told his story...