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...motionless behind a bush when the cubs came up and the groundskeeper duly 'squealed,' a sound made by suction of the breath through pursed lips. The vocal cord was not used. Two or three more squeals and we had them right up, just the other side of the bush, looking at us. Then one of them sat down to it, the others followed suit and there we were, the six of us, staring at each other like so many owls. When we had enough, the groundskeeper called: "and what's the game now!" Whereat they all whisked...
Equipped with a stop-watch he appeared at the Museum just before midnight. Unlocking the large front door, he entered the deserted building, glanced at the watch, and strode up the stairs. Reaching the top floor he again noted the time, remained motionless for precisely three minutes, and then walked to the head of another staricase. Here he again consulted the stop-watch, and paused for three minutes before descending to the ground floor. Once more he glanced at his watch, left the building, and disappeared in the night...
...stages. The film runs continuously at crankshaft speed-up to 250 m. p. h. Light from the explosion passes through a heavy quartz window in the cylinder head to a stationary lens, thence to a series of 30 rapidly moving lenses which follow the film and hold each image motionless on it during exposure. The spark is seen first like a lone star in a black sky, then a flame front spreading and backwashing around the base of the chamber. At one stage back pressure was observed to make combustion-produced carbon dioxide hotter than the actually burning gases. Pressure...
...disk. What goes on in the cell while the machine is spinning can be seen by stroboscopic light-extremely rapid, brief flashes from a mercury vapor arc. The flashes are timed to illuminate the cell at precisely the same point of every revolution and thus the cell appears motionless. A Zeiss camera nine feet long is trained on it to take pictures...
...Pavlova have been able to forget her impersonation of the swan, a creature who first hovered lightly on her toes, typified all Death when she crumpled to the floor in a motionless mound of tarlatan and feathers. Last week at the Regal Theatre in London Pavlova danced again, in a series of cinema films linked together and called The Immortal Swan. Producer was her husband, Victor Dandré, who was releasing the pictures for the first time to raise funds for a Pavlova Memorial Fountain to be executed by Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles on a site already approved in London...