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...snail, during his zoological lecture. He could not find his whelk. He searched his coat and waistcoat pockets, crawled under his lecture table, peered around the platform. He finally found the whelk in his hip pocket. Mountaineering Etiquet, Climbing Mt. Everest where atmospheric oxygen is so scant that mountaineers faint, is largely a matter of respiratory engineering, of providing light-weight tanks of oxygen for the climbers. Captain N. E. Odell, survivor of a tragic, ineffectual attempt up Everest in 1924 (TIME, July 14, 1924), last week objected "that if a mountain is worth climbing at all, it is worth...
Since Lyricist Bud De Sylva left the team of De Sylva, Brown & Henderson a faint note of illiteracy has crept into the words of the remaining pair's songs. Mr. Vallee, A.B. Yale 1927, must wince a little when he has to sing...
...Milne's A Catalogue of Destructive Earthquakes (A.D. 1-1899). Others have brought the records up to date. Out of the records analysts have been able to decipher two groups of periodicity in earthquakes. In one group vigorous quakes occur once a year, faint ones every day. In the other group trifling temblors occur every 21 minutes and every 429 days; more or less violent ones every 11, 19, 22 and 33 years. To predict the approximate time & place of recurrence requires no great mathematical skill, especially if the seismologist has up-to-the-minute reports of the earthy...
...time president of National Bank of Kentucky and BancoKentucky Co., he was seen in the offices of his Herald-Post perhaps once a year. Hence last week, when the paper passed in bankruptcy sale to John B. Gallagher, New York advertising man, for $315,000, it was but a faint anticlimax to Banker Brown's earlier troubles: the collapse of his financial institutions...
...subarctic air mail route from the U. S. (TIME, Aug. 17). Officials signaled frantically to Cramer & Pacquette but the former mistook the gestures for farewells, circled the town, flew away over the ocean. The storm broke, a hurricane, driving surface craft to cover. A Swedish radio station heard a faint "Hello, hello, hello" in English, but the plane was not seen again. Days later the crew of a trawler sighted the body of a man clad in life belt and what looked like aviator's clothing floating upright in the North Sea. In Cleveland President Edwin G. Thompson...