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...Layer by layer, a typical young lady's petticoat underpinnings might include: a white stiff not crinoline, a blue and white polka dot taffeta, and, the most recent addition to petticoat fashions, a chintz with numerous ruffles...
Whipple suggests that almost all meteor damage could be eliminated if rockets and space stations were sheathed with a thin layer mounted slightly away from the projectile's skin. Such a layer, especially if filled with certain types of dense, plastic-like gases, would cut the velocity of the smaller particles and prevent them from damaging the rest of the ship...
Young Fingertips. Finding reason enough for their lives in the ways of Cloone, Ches and Finn pick up the rhyme of it from the old folks. There is Brink-o'-the-Grave, midwife and layer-out of the dead who can still keen the ancient Gaelic laments; Lord Caherdown, the bogus aristocrat and tosspot; and Old Font, the village Boswell. "The night our local member of Parliament threw the mace at the Speaker of the British House of Commons ... to call attention to the wrongs of Ireland," recalls Old Font, "we lighted bonfires here in Cloone an' held...
...does not talk much about their links with results nor about their espionage activities, nor about any of the other factors which make Communism far more dangerous than a group of office-girls sitting around and reading the "Masifesto." Philbrick's look at Commssion only scratches at the top layer of a problem which gets far too much superficial handling...
...approach to racing is basically sane and even serious, but with an upper layer of humor. There was, for instance, the time he sent Rusty Gate out hopelessly for the Saratoga Cup and, instead of riding orders, gave Ted Atkinson a sandwich, a container of milk and a wrist compass, remarking he might be out a long time...