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...sides of the Atlantic began to make heavy water and experiment with it. Heavy water was found to kill guppy fish, tadpoles, flatworms. Dean Lewis reported that tobacco seeds immersed in it failed to sprout. He gave some to a mouse, watched the creature prance tipsily about its cage, lick the glass walls, develop a great thirst. Heavy water in low concentrations (but higher than in ordinary water) was found in the sap and wood of willow trees, in the Dead Sea, in Great Salt Lake. European experimenters dissolved sugar crystals in heavy water, recrystallized them by evaporation, found that...
...executives, to be sure, always best him as an old fashioned Yankee type out the emphasis was always placed on the wrong Yankee characteristics. Either he was provoking general merriment by some faus pas of the "Howdly Duchess" varsity or he was being evicted or swindled by some a lick newcomer. In "David Herum," however, he is not only a Yankee type but a smart Yankee. The scene is not Paris or Hollywood; it is where one naturally expects to find a Yankee, a small town...
...amused, to quiet his tantrums and occasionally to stop his bleeding. He ran an elaborate spy service of his own through which he was able to keep the Little Father advised on court intrigues. He gave extraordinary breakfast parties at which his handsome hobble-skirted admirers were permitted to lick the fingers that Rasputin had just dunked in his fish soup. During the War he was strongly suspected of being a German agent...
...brisk demand the Crown is safe enough. In 1919 Canada swung under the influence of her sturdy farmers and Liberals who scarcely love a lord. Their leader and longtime Premier, coarse & hearty Mr. William Lyon Mackenzie King, has taken the line that it is un-Canadian to lick the Royal hand for honors. Not until 1930 did Canada's pendulum swing back. When Mr. King was ousted at last by rich, pious, Conservative and lord-loving Premier Richard Bedford Bennett, the set in Canadian opinion against Royal honors was so stiff that it has taken Mr. Bennett (a personal...
...keep quiet and be careful," shouted he, "you can have the Negro in two minutes. There's no use tearing down any more. I can't hold out. I've never known an Irishman to lick a Dutchman before, but there are too many Irishmen here...