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...divers worked at the depth of 127 ft. in great difficulties. They had to be careful not to entangle their own ropes, wires, and air hose in the antennae, which would have been fatal. An hour was all they could stay down at a time. Exploring in the interior of the submarine with their bulky suits, with 24-pound weights on their feet and lead-weighted belts was difficult and dangerous. About an hour and a half was spent in raising them to the surface after each descent. They were raised 15 ft. and then allowed a rest while they...
Louis D'Arclay gave a spirited performance as Chico, the sewer rat who never let life get the better of him. When he prayed to "le bon Dieu" for his heart's desire, a job on "the hose", a wife with yellow hair, and a ride in a taxi-cab, and even payed good money to burn candles to his favorite saint, nothing happened; and so Chico forthwith became an atheist and went around proclaiming that God owed him fifteen francs. And it must have done some good for eventually God paid the debt. Tormented by a wicked, dope-ridden...
...Garden Hose" At Fort Tilden (near Manhattan) anti-aircraft gunners prepared to test a new "sightless" 50-caliber Browning anti-aircraft machine gun. Instead of aiming and firing at the target by the aid of sights, a gunner firing the new weapon simply turns it like a garden hose upon aircraft overhead and sprays them with a stream of 450 bullets per minute, every fifth bullet being a flaming "tracer bullet" which indicates...
Gardeners who have attempted to down elusive butterflies with a hose opined that even with the new gun anti-aircraft marksmen will scarcely have it all their own way; shook their heads doubtfully even when informed that the tracer bullets will be visible to a height of 7,500 ft. at night...
...usually diagnosed as a complication of broad "a"s, horn-rimmed glasses, and aloofness. Such a generality is no truer than generalities ever are, this one included. We consider it scarcely fair to Williams to term it "a glorified country club", although we admit that the quantity of golf hose in the student laundry is prodigious. No more is it fair to say that your Harvard host permits you to sit in the corner until he finishes his chapter of Epicurus, and then yawns constantly during a difficult conversation...