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...pounds of mottled horror. Hunters had stalked the jungle for nine months. Wary of their prey they had laid a great bait. At last he had come, eunectes murinus, the snatcher, coiling dangerously out of a dark stream. They took him after he had gorged and lay inert. Natives clustered about chattering, "Sucuri! Sucuri!" (local term for a reptile). They dreaded the monster as do all hunters save immediately after its meal, which occurs only about four times yearly...
...recognized as the only art which has given to the human hand the supreme privilege of penetrating, exploring and working in the interior of the body of man. And in this, the surgeon's art transcends all others, even that art which has accomplished the marvel of transfiguring inert clay, marble and bronze into dreams of beauty and esthetic delight for the delectation senses." of the imagination...
Next day, still fogged with raw fumes, he made his way back to Buermeyer's rooms. The man lay where he had left him, inert. The sight precipitated fresh mania and Mr. Carson attacked once more, exhorting his opponent to "stand up and take it." Buermeyer was unconscious. He felt nothing during ensuing minutes when his assailant kicked, beat, bashed him with a milk bottle, shoved him around the floor with a broomstick, tried to smother him with a dressing gown. He lay so limp, with blood streaming from ear, nose, jaw, forehead and the base of his skull...
...bring to bear upon the Federal Government the growing pains of economic regeneration. In none of these fields is the government now active. In all of them, country-wide opinion needs little more than crystallization. One can guess that new fevers will in reasonable time rack the now inert parties...
...analogous to that by which he and others claim the transmutation of mercury into gold?bombarding the atoms with electricity. If practicable on a large scale, this process would greatly facilitate the preparation of helium for airship bags. It is now obtained chiefly by difficult fractional distillation of the inert gases found in certain metallic ores and in the natural gas wells and mineral springs of Kansas, Texas and the Pyrenees...