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...meteor had wrecked the plane and killed the occupants, it would have been the first incontrovertible instance of such hail from outer space causing loss of human life. No one knows whether the mountainous mass that shook North Central Siberia in 1908, or the prehistoric fall that dug Meteor Crater 4,000 ft. wide in Arizona, killed anyone or not. But several close shaves are well known to connoisseurs of meteoritics. In 1827 a man was injured by a fall at Mhow, India. In 1836 cattle were reported killed by a meteoric shower in Brazil. In 1847 two iron meteorites...
Soon after the fire alarm had sounded. the port side of the ship was like the inside of a Bessemer converter. Astern, cut off from ship's officers by the fire, frightened passengers in night clothes prayed, shrieked, sang "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here." A young Catholic priest walked calmly around giving all comers final absolution. Eight of the ship's twelve boats were lowered. There was fighting to get into these. "Everybody was pushing and screaming topside." said Seaman Carl Jackson. "The passengers were fighting to get to the lifeboats, but it was no good. They were...
Straightway the ring of Communists broke into mournful Red songs, boos and shouts. Then they dug into paper bags and sent a hail of ripe tomatoes whistling at Sir Oswald. His voice rising to a near-scream, Fascist Mosley replied: "Behind these hooligans are alien Jewish financiers, supplying them with palm...
...Hail, my Labormen!" cried the Realmleader, bursting with honest pride. "Hail, My Leader!" roared 52,000 young throats, then chanted in unison: "One Leader! One Reich! Deutschland uber Attest Heil Hitler...
When the 79-year-old author of My Boy Franklin lately landed in Britain gallant London editors surpassed themselves in honoring the President's mother. One even went so far as to hail her as WORLD'S MOST WONDERFUL WOMAN...