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...their hermetically sealed cabins, equipped with air-purifying chemicals similar to those used in U.S. atomic submarines, spacesuit-clad Strelka and Belka lolled in a constant 77° temperature. Old space dogs (each of them had taken short rocket rides before), they stared at each other through a pane of glass and ate eagerly from an automatic feeding apparatus while instruments fastened to their bodies relayed their blood pressure, temperature, pulse and breathing rate back to earth. Strelka seemed to bear up better than Belka under the rigors of weightless space travel: her breathing rate remained at a steady...
...that his father had given him. A year was par for a novel. As critics and readers quickly learned, his characters behaved with a realistic mixture of human strength and frailty. Storyteller Shute was peculiarly immune to the lilt and color of prose, but he fashioned his sentences with pane-of-glass clarity...
...Pain of Pane. In Montgomery, Ala., Window Washer John Dickens was fined $25 for smashing all the windows in his own home...
...later life, said Charles Franklin Kettering, who grew up in wonderment on an Ohio farm. "Why," he asked, peering nearsightedly out of his mother's kitchen window, "can I see through a pane of glass?" "What," he asked, "is magnetism? I would like to know how a magnet reaches out and pulls a piece of metal to it." Charlie Kettering was not satisfied with merely asking the questions: all his life he probed for the answers with his pliers, his screw driver, his wrench-and his insatiably curious mind...
...view of the parent-school relationship which many educators, in their quiet, undisturbed hours, visualize as an ideal one: the school free from parental interference, at liberty to introduce the subjects it wishes and the textbooks it chooses, without the twitching nose of the community pressing against the window pane. It is this way with the best private universities; wouldn't it be delightful if it could be so with secondary schools...