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...famed delayed-opening parachute jumps. His tail of flour against the pale blue sky made him look like a comet's ghost as he plummeted down a full two miles. Not until he was within 1,000 ft. of the ground did he jerk his rip cord, break his 147-111.p.h. fall, soar down to a perfect two-leg landing in midfield...
...sedan started up with a jerk, shot down Wolf Road. The taxi driver and his passenger leaped from their cab, began dancing up & down in the road, waving their arms at an army airplane overhead. The airplane picked up their signal, nosedived. Instantly along Wolf Road, down which the sedan was racing, squad after squad of armed policemen appeared from ambush. A barricade was flung across the road, cutting off the sedan's escape. The airplane was swooping down, into machine gun range. The sedan shot into a side road, turned around, sped back over Wolf Road. Coming head...
...Brain Trust, began to draft in the White House a second message to the Conference. Amid his labors he called up Secretary Hull for an extra secret talk. In London, when U . S. Banker-expert James P. Warburg entered the room in which Mr. Hull was telephoning, a meaning jerk of the Secretary of State's head caused him hastily to withdraw. Tension meanwhile was slackening. "I will lunch with the U. S. Delegation tomorrow," said French Finance Minister Bonnet. "We must not destroy all signs of confidence...
...plight of William Lewis Rowland Paul Sebastian Blennerhassett, wealthy Throgmorton Street stockbroker, addicted like all his ilk to eating lobster salad at Pimm's. In King's Bench Division before Hon. Mr. Justice Branson, outraged Broker Blennerhassett brought suit for libel against a vendor of the silly jerk-on-a-string tops called yo-yos. The yo-yo man had advertised that a man named Blennerhassett had gone stark, raving mad from diddling with...
When a piece of iron or other substance is magnetized, the molecules yank one way. When the substance is demagnetized the molecules jerk helter-skelter. The magnetic yanking causes molecular friction and produces an appreciable amount of heat which Professor Wrilliam F. Giauque, University of California chemist, used last week to reach the lowest degree of cold yet attained...