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...gibbon is 'Bylobates', which means treewalker. It is particularly appropriate as they swing through the trees by means of their long arms at a remarkable speed. They are the most beautiful natural acrobats and think nothing of swinging across a forty feet clearing and catching a pigeon in mid-air on the way over. They have the most perfect sense of timing. One gibbon pet in Indo-China used to juggle precious china cups or plates in the air without ever breaking...
During its first three years, Seversky Aircraft did little but experiment. It developed such inventions of its founder as the mechanism generally used for mid-air refueling and the automatic bomb sight now adopted by the U. S. and Great Britain. In 1933 Inventor Seversky began toying with ambitious- amphibian ideas, produced a plane which could land on snow, water or land. By last year he had developed this chunky, all-metal, single-motored monoplane so well that in it he set a world speed record for amphibians (230.4 m.p.h...
Travelers back from the East have for generations enlivened dinner parties with accounts of Hindu fakirs who floated unsupported in mid-air before the eyes of hundreds, or climbed a miraculous rope until they were lost to sight. Skeptical listeners, psychic researchers, men of science have scoffed at these marvels, called them a romantic variety of mass hypnotism. Last week armchair theorists got a shock when a set of photographs taken in broad daylight by two hard-headed Britishers reached the U. S. The pictures show a white-robed Indian Yogi reclining several feet above the ground in a sculpturesque...
...about as well as anyone in College, Frank Harnden and John Johnson, inside forwards, think fast, are quick with their feet, and want to play the scientific game called soccer. Dick Lowis, center halfback, is already a well-known post. Be covers the whole field; kicks everything, often in mid-air, as soon as it comes to him, and seldom misses. But Williams at goal is the class of the league. He gets them, high or low, clears fast, and has plenty of nerve...
...want to be quoted as doing nothing but smile," declared Thomas S. McCaleb, instructor in Geographical Exploration, when questioned about Guglielmo Marconi's flendish invention. Swathed in rumor, this 'micro-wave' machine is supposed to stall the ignition system of airplanes in mid-air...