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Policeman Mayne sat down at the table and was starting to fill out a routine report when he heard a faint noise from the package. "The baby's alive," he said. "No," said the father, "that's just the table squeaking." Mayne put his ear to the package, then quickly ripped it open. The 2½ lb., six-month baby was alive all right, and was soon doing well in an incubator at the Albert Einstein Medical Center...
Conant, despite his strong views on most matters of educational policy, moved slowly. His first year saw the end of the rising bell and the return of beer, but little of a lasting nature in the way of educational innovation. In 1934-35 the first faint sproutings of the National Scholarship plan went into effect with the arrival of a special group of scholars from what the CRIMSON referred to as "the midwestern regions." Until the plan was codified in 1936, these men were known as "Conant Scholars...
...finished a surprising fourth. Troy never even finished. His mount, like McArthur's, was an aged, retired Army nag borrowed from Fort Riley, Kans. because the U.S. Military Academy has none of its own. Troy's horse got halfway around the course and fell in a dead faint from the exertion...
...when Dr. de la Füye stood up at the society's dinner dance to receive the Order of the Green Dragon from Prince Buu Loc, he did not look like a champion. He keeled over in a dead faint. Mme. de la Füye dug her fingernail into her husband's left pinkie (hsiaochung). He stood up for a moment, then toppled again. By this time, Dr. Alexandre Guillaume had found a gold needle, and jabbed it in De la Füye's hsiaochung until the patient complained: "Hey, that hurts!" Thus revived...
...laboratory at the University of Chicago, a pinch of powdered carbon was placed in a radiation counter. Chemistry Professor Willard F. Libby carefully measured its faint radioactivity,* made his calculation and gave his verdict: the charred oak from which the carbon came was 3,800 years old-give or take about 275 years...