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...important, however, that the programs on which there is wide agreement be enacted as soon as possible. For as the year wears on, and election times comes closer, party lines are bound to harden. "Me Too" makes a poor election slogan, and the Democrats will have to start acting more like an opposition...
...weapons. After a while Thais stopped bothering with elephants and did all their scrapping hand to hand. Fighters took to wrapping their fists and forearms with cotton twine, dipping the resulting gauntlets into gum and sprinkling them liberally with broken glass. Before a fight, the gum was allowed to harden until a man's arm became a club. There were no weight limits, no rounds-only a punctured coconut shell floating in a container of water. The fight continued until the shell sank, or until one of the boxers fell unconscious or dead...
...live in countless billions in the sea. When they die, their silicic, spherical skeletons sink to the ocean floor, form a radiolarian ooze. An explosion such as the H-bomb would blow them skyward, heating them past 1,710° centigrade, at which temperature silica melts. But they would harden again at the lower temperatures of the atmosphere and, being feather light, would float on the wind across the Pacific -to strike windshields...
Climax' miners, who must tunnel through Colorado's Bartlett Mountain for the ore, call it "molly bedamned," and until World War I no one had much use for the metal. The Germans, then short of tungsten, first used it to harden the barrels of their Big Berthas. It was used on a large scale again in World War II. In peacetime, however, most steelmakers preferred tungsten; molybdenum production usually dropped off to a trickle...
...bother with the arguments as to just which abnormalities involving fatty substances in the blood are the more important. "Probably," he says, "all play a role in the development of arteriosclerosis." What Dr. Steiner was concerned with was the practical problem of checking the process by which the arteries harden and become closed by the thickening deposits...