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...young Dr. Kenneth T. Bainbridge stood in the gallery of a theatre and threw handfuls of lemons, oranges and grapefruit at the stage, he would no doubt be ejected by the police. But if there existed no scales on which to weigh lemons, oranges and grapefruit, the police would doubtless let him throw to his heart's content. Thrown with equal force, the lemons would hit players, the oranges would land in the orchestra pit, the grapefruit on the heads of $5.50 seat-holders. Then Dr. Bainbridge could measure the distance between a grapefruit-splashed spectator and an orange-struck...
...some neon into one end of a vacuum chamber. Neon, having three isotopes, is comparable to a lot of lemons, oranges and grapefruit in a paper bag.' Dr. Bainbridge knew the weight of the whole, also the average weight of each piece of his "fruit," but (he assumed) not the weight of each individual piece. So he propelled the neon atoms through the chamber with an electric force, strong enough to blow the "bag" to pieces, ionize the atoms. Two huge electromagnets created a powerful magnetic field, which, like gravity pulling the fruit to earth, defleeted the course...
...dingy home again, while managing to make his crazy adventures of the troupe seem a dream, it never gives a final accounting for the members of the troupe that are left. To be sure, they have been laid low by tomatoes in a theatre too dismal to boast grapefruit; they have lost a hero and heroine to the London stage; and they have lost Jess, but somehow the corporate ghost of "The Good Companions" lives on and is not to be laid without special attention from the playwright. The audience never knows what happens to the old veterans. Instead...
...stick on days when his managers expect him to be photographed, weighs 9 Ib.; that his neck is 20 in. around; that all other parts of his body, as is not usually the case with giants, are proportionately huge. For breakfast, when in training, Carnera eats two or three grapefruit, a dozen pieces of toast, two or three fish, a large steak, a bowl of fruit salad, several bowls of tea with cream. When not in training he drinks as many as three bottles of champagne at a sitting, eats twice as many grapefruit, breakfasts on cornflakes which he prefers...
Less than seven hours after the Belize blow, a second hurricane bore up from the southeast on San Juan, P. R. Governor Theodore Roosevelt Jr. had just left for the U. S. The wind lasted 45 min., killed two, knocked out communications for a day, slightly damaged the grapefruit crop, burst in the windows and thoroughly soaked "La Fortaleza," Governor Roosevelt's mansion...