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...stronghold village of Bribane, was enveloped by the smoke of burning crops and villages and the fumes of exploding shells. Armored cars and cavalry advanced up the easier slopes, while battalion after battalion of infantry stormed the steep western salient like a rising tide, preceded by a deadly, frothing foam of shrapnel...
...trawlers Spray and Foam, groping the Atlantic for 750 miles off the Virginia Capes with a mile of steel cable sagging between them along the ocean floor, last week had a bite. The cable tightened, went taut, snapped. Whatever it had snared was ponderous. Repaired, the cable caught again and soon Diver Fred Neilson of Brooklyn clamped on his helmet, dropped overside like a sinker, 213 feet to the bottom. When he followed his stream of bubbles back up to the surface, he told his comrades that they had indeed found the Merida, a ship sunk 14 years...
...backers, a syndicate called the Sea Hawks, organized last year and sent the Spray and Foam on a prospecting cruise. The Merida was found then, as it had been previously by other would-be salvagers, but heavy autumn seas prevented diving...
...holding their usual stately parade into Laguna Beach, Calif. Luxuriating on the sands lay seminaked figures, brown with bathing, supple with youth, ripple-thewed from exercise. Watching the rollers lazily, the loafing ones would watch little figures scooting shoreward at the forefoot of a comber, lying flat in the foam or poised excitingly erect on flying surf boards...
Perhaps the filtering of light through a bottle conveys some mysterious information to those erudite persons who have made a study of the liquor question. Or it may be that the aroma of evaporating foam wafted to nostrils that are sensitive enough betrays the worthlessness of the beverage. But until these possibilities are established there remains a very grave question. Is it possible that Mr. Wheeler could have tasted the Ontario beer...