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...sleeve dangling at its side, were dragged into the main street. A A rope was put around the neck of each and the free end was thrown over the cross bar of a lamp post. Strong arms pulled, the ropes slid over the bar, and the two figures hung inert and lifeless in midair. The crowd cheered...
Helium, which goes out of solution far more swiftly than nitrogen, and is just as inert chemically, promises to serve as an efficient substitute for nitrogen as the 79% inert diluent of oxygen in a diver's breathing atmosphere, and to permit longer work at greater depths...
Both elements occur in the so-called Mangan group of inorganic earth elements (i. e. manganese, chromium) and constitute about a billionth part of the earth's crust. Inert, their commercial and scientific value is unknown, probably small...
...LOST SPEECH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN-Honore Willsie Morrow- Stokes ($1.00). When homespun Lawyer Lincoln arose at Bloomington, Ill., in May, 1856, to breathe life into an inert body that some editors and politicians had created and hoped to call the Republican Party, he uttered not two score words before his hearers- all the stenographers and reporters present included-lost control over head, heart and hand. When he had done and the Party lived, the stenographers and reporters shudderingly discovered that they had let mighty-worded history fly out of the window. The Morrow version of that event, which aims...
...broader application of William Allen White's dictum. If you live in the East, go to a Western college; if in the West, go East. Professors, who knew long before Mr. White of the advantage of change of locality in education, never weary of trying to flail inert undergraduates into seeking interesting experiences, and although they are usually unsuccessful, now and then a bold student cuts himself off from the mother-country's apron-strings and risks the perilous journey to alien lands...