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Franconia Cannon 4-25, 8 powder, Light snow. Fair to poor...
...grocer and quickly broke with the "stupid" girl he had imagined was his ideal. He fell in love with the wife of one of Napoleon's leading officials, imagined that that old black magic was enchanting his inamorata, that "she looked at me as though I were a powder barrel." But the fuse fizzled. One violent passion for a majestic Italian beauty spanned a decade during which he never saw the "sublime wench." After eleven years he finally noted: "On September 21, at half-past eleven, I won the victory I had so long desired." It took...
...cupful of air out of an area as big as Chicago's Union Station. Then he worked out ways to use vacuum processes to dehydrate foods without killing vitamins or taste, refine metals better by keeping out impurities formed by the metals' contact with air, powder drugs faster than before, and coat delicate optical lenses with chemicals to improve light transmission...
...started exploring other fields, made the first U.S. Navy blimps and balloons in World War I, later tried its hand at dirigibles. In World War II the company was one of the most diversified in U.S. industry, turned out everything from Navy fighter planes to tank parts, gas masks, powder bags and artillery shells...
...senior year, and the Army gives its advanced students a History of Military Warfare. These are the courses, however, which most aptly fit into the sphere of liberal education. Certainly they would stand the two-year man in better stead than learning the armed forces' pay rates, the powder charge in a 10,000-pound bomb, and the differing millimeters of shells...