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...white powder with one and a half times the blasting force of TNT. It was invented by the Germans in 1899, but had been considered too expensive for military use until the U.S. found a way, used it in naval torpedoes and bazooka anti-tank rockets...
...they had retained the image of the last person he saw before his death; the G-man had brought along bloodhounds which had already tracked down a suspect. In reality, the FBI man started out much less spectacularly, going over the locked church with a magnifying glass and fingerprint powder. When he had finished, he ordered the church unlocked. Glumly, Padre Carlos Galves rounded up a group of helpers, went into the basilica to prepare for the next day's Mass...
...John Steuart Curry's powder-puff oil, Hitting the Line, showed, football is a mighty hard sport to picture convincingly. Prizefighting, where the action is limited to two men under brilliant light, does better, and the best painting in the show was George Bellows' classic one of Firpo knocking Dempsey through the ropes. Nineteenth Century standouts were engravings of the great Australian heavyweight, Peter Jackson, and of a bearded speedster named William Howitt...
...boosters as Poppaedius the Sailorman, an Acrostichis Duplex (double acrostic), an Aenigma Verbale (crossword puzzle), and occasionally something that looks like an ad. ("Putabat to gam suam candidam esse!" snorts one Senator about another, in apparent anticipation of the 20th Century catch line of Britain's Persil soap powder, "I thought my shirt was white...
Steps are being taken to control the menace at the 'Cliffe. Girls are warned to eat up their stray food to guarantee against unwelcome visitors, and a powder is being distributed that causes mice to go into the walls...