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...baffled by them at first," she admits). Henry Moore's carved-wood Reclining Woman stood as symbol of her unceasing effort to bring the best of modern art to San Francisco, thus help bridge the gap that had tended to keep the West Coast ten to fifteen years behind trends set in Paris and Manhattan...
...After fifteen hundred years of victories, the Revolution of the fourth century (that of the kings and nobles against the people) had been overthrown by the Revolution of the nineteenth century (that of the people against the kings and nobles). Napoleon was born of this conflagration, and he had allied himself so closely with it that it seemed as if the great convulsion had been nothing more than the labor pains of the birth of one man. He commanded the Revolution as if he were the genius of that terrible element...
...Fifteen Hundred Miles. After the Kurds came the Taochians, bitter-end tribesmen who, when one of their forts was stormed, committed mass suicide. Next were the Chalybeans, the "stoutest men" the Greeks had yet faced, who fought them hand to hand and, when they killed a Greek, cut off his head and "sang and danced," waving it in front of the survivors. Armenia was an agony, a land filled with blizzards. Men "who had been blinded by the snow or lost their toes by frostbite" had to be left behind...
Though the Administration never put any matter to a faculty vote, the President made it clear that the College would expand by fifteen to twenty per cent in the next twenty years, and said that it had been expanding at this rate for the last eighty without deteriorating. The argument ran that with more applicants, the College could take more without lowering its admissions standards...
First a ring of explosive anchor screws blew off the cone's back cover (see diagram). Fifteen seconds later, when the cone was about 5,000 ft. above the sea, a small explosive charge fired a tight-packed parachute out of a mortar-like container. It was a ribbon chute made of concentric rings of strong fabric 2 in. wide, and at first it was reefed by a band around it to lower the shock of opening. When the falling speed was reduced still more, explosive bolts freed the recovery package, the parachute was unreefed and its powerful drag...