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...height around 7 ft. A "two-room cottage" and a "five-room efficiency" trailer are both bound to be within these measurements. At night the rooms are used for sleeping, by day become dinettes, living rooms, etc. At slight additional expense awnings and folding chairs make a front porch...
...work done on the track during the next two months will be very light. Precaution will be taken not to develop any strained muscles, one of the purposes of this early training being to bring the athlete gradually into a hardened condition after a summer of beach chairs and porch swings...
...seen her in seven years. ..." From the court house, La Verne Moore went not to his mother's home but to that of Cinemactor Otto Kruger near Elizabethtown, to celebrate his freedom with cocktails and dinner. Next day, he was photographed embracing his parents on the porch of the house where they have lived for the past two months. Said La Verne Moore to reporters : "This sure looks like home...
Contrary to popular belief, the American chameleon (Anolis carolinensis) does not assume the color of its surroundings. Its color changes, partly reflex and partly voluntary, are stimulated by temperature, illumination, emotion. In summer the chameleon can be given the run of a screened porch, but in winter it needs a cage with plenty of sunlight shining through glass netting or fine screen. Chameleons can drink only by lapping up drops of water sprinkled on plants; hence many die of thirst even with a pan of water in their cages...
...second, last week. Explained lively Publisher Carl L. Estes: "The second annual East Texas edition of last year . . . received much praise and only one complaint: that it was 'too big.' One subscriber, who had spent years training his dog to bring in the paper from the front porch, irrevocably canceled his subscription, saying that in a vain attempt to make good on the enormous issue the dog had torn it to ribbons and then died of a broken heart. Seriously, papers of 350 pages or more are too big to be read at one sitting. . . . For this reason...