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STACY-Alexander Black - Bobbs-Merrill ($2.00). The walls were not very thick where Stacy lived. Upstairs lived a female person whom he could hear walking, thud, thud, like a shod horse, endlessly to and fro, putting away her laundry out of a package -a year's wash, perhaps. Downstairs in the basement there were two other people-a man named Barrack and a girl he had taken in. This girl had been on the town, but she was pretty. Stacy fell in love with her, fell also for the shod horse abovestairs. He knew his oats, he knew...
...towel- soggy, bloodstained, ragged-sailed over the top rope of the fight ring in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Sock! it landed on the canvas, right at the heels of a battered little man with a streaming gash over his right eye. The little man was rocking to and fro under showers of blows from a furious, compact human whirlwind that flew now at his head, now at his ribs, now at his jaw, now at his pounding heart...
...digest of starch. Light consists of vibrations across the line of sight-vibrations up and down, right and left, and all the angles in between. Polarized light is light that has acquired, by reflection, a single group of positive and negative vibrations-vibrations that have motion to and fro in only one line of direction. When polarized light is passed through starch, it is twisted left or right, according to the sugar-content of the starch. This has long been known. Miss Semmen's experiments show that the vibrations themselves have an effect on the starch they pass through...
...Federal Constitution so much more sacred than the laws to enforce the other Amendments that those charged with its enforcement may without regard to the great third party, the public, engage in pistol duels with lawbreakers, alleged or real, in places where hundreds of people pass to and fro at all hours of the day and far into the night? Is the 18th Amendment so much more holy and sacred than the Fourth and Fifth Amendments* that the enforcement branch of our National prohibition department is justified in violating either one or both of them to enforce...
...have been so long stamped out in Utopia by the Utopian scientists that the mere arrival of the Earthlings sets up an epidemic. They are put in quarantine?and promptly start ambushing their hosts as a beginning of making Utopia safe for Democracy. Only the subeditor, Mr. Barnstaple, dissents fro'm the Earthling program of conquest and is nearly shot as a traitor by his fellows as a result. He escapes from them, after hair-breadth adventures?they are shot back violently to earth via Utopian wireless?and he remains in Utopia for some time, studying its civilization. Finally...