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...river at all, but he remains attached to it remembering how, although it would deny everything, it has worked sorrow and pleasure. In the fall when Cambridge twilight's are a smoky blue, white-shirted harriers jog along the winding course to Watertwon and back, while men in shells pump up and down like regulated pistons. When Dartmouth comes to town, girls in bright colors walk over the bridge, heels clicking on the walk like little hammers. When there is something shining and invisible in the air over the Stadium, the Vegabond feels as if he were walking on tiptoe...
Manhattan's Daily Advertiser advertised the U. S.'s first panorama show (Jerusalem) in 1790, "at Lawrence Hyer's Tavern, between the Gaol and the Tea Water Pump; the sight is most brilliant by candlelight." The U. S. panorama fad reached its peak in the 1850's, faded fast...
...tune of nearly $1,000,000,000. It did not succeed because the period was one of liquidation. Now that pressure has been relaxed, if not definitely reversed, President Roosevelt believes that with a strong and sympathetic man at the handle, he can make the Reserve credit pump work effectively...
...actually died in that manner. Dr. Gettler established the blood-saltiness test for drowning by drowning dogs in salt and fresh waters. He found that, in drowning, water always gets into the lungs, then into the left cavities of the heart, and adulterates the blood. Before the heart can pump the altered blood through the system and back to the right heart cavities, the individual is dead, the heart stopped. If the person drowns in salt water the left heart blood is saltier than the right heart blood. Since blood is salty to begin with, the opposite is true...
...marked on any map. Bordj Estienne, an elaborate mud fort near the oasis of Reggan, boasts (and not idly) an American bar, French table d"hÓte, illustrated French and English magazines less than ten days old, bedrooms with electric light. Bidon 5 is a gasoline pump, "a white-enamelled pillar identical with those you see along any road in Long Island or Westchester or in front of your next-door garage-except that it stands there in the sand, in the midst of nothingness, in the almost exact geographical centre of the Sahara, stuck there like a pictorial...