Word: quicksands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quicksand? With the exception of smart Simon & Schuster, who have a share in the business, most publishers were skeptical. Said one: "We are cooperating because of all the agitation for cheap books and the success of cheap books in Europe. We feel we ought to give it a chance-to show that it won't work here. If we thought it would really go, we would hesitate much longer about letting him have our plates." Said another: "The price is still too high for paperbound books-they have to sell at 10? or 15?, compete with magazines." A third...
Pierce Hall contains the new windtunnel, just completed last fall for tests of model airplanes in wind speeds ranging up to 140 miles an hour. Here also is the Harvard Soil Mechanics laboratory, a pioneer in its field, where may be seen graphic experiments of the formation of quicksand, landslides, the failure of earth dams and building foundations, and frost heaving...
Powder River rises in central Wyoming, fed by the snows of the Big Horn Mountains. North it flows, joined by Salt Creek, Dugout Creek, Pumpkin Creek, Wild Horse Creek and Crazy Woman Creek. Bitterly alkaline, mushy with quicksand, flanked for 100 miles by badlands, Powder River is nothing compared with such rushing beauties as the Feather, the Snake, the Salmon...
...passion for painting birds. His name was John James Audubon. Passing an island, Audubon saw the cross-eyed, hook-nosed face of a horned owl. Up came his fowling piece; he shot, leaped overboard to retrieve the bird. As he waded through the shallows he began sinking in quicksand. The Negroes, cautioning him not to move, braced themselves with oars and driftwood, pulled him out. He lost...
...University Hall is not a pleasant place to visit. But, to those in good standing, or with an honest desire to regain good standing, University Hall and the deans therein might be likened to an oasis of solid advice beckoning to the bewildered or negligent who flounder in scholarly quicksand...