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...course which began last year with Archimedes' Principle and this year with a smiling television image of the Jefferson Librarian does not pretend that its students will not rake leaves and pick up papers for $21 per month like their classmates. It merely wants to give a brief introduction to the course which men who took Physics C in any year must eventually take if they wish to become radio...
...yards away; its explosion, fortunately muffled by the soft earth, makes every house in the district reel and shudder. Bombs thud down one after the other. An incendiary bomb smacks onto our roof blinding for a moment and splashing melted metal and flame, but with the aid of a rake it is dislodged and flicked off into the garden to burn itself out; had it been left it would have burnt its way through roof and floor to the basement...
...falcon dropping on its prey whistles like a dive-bomber, kills its victim in mid-air with one powerful rake of its talons, sometimes swoops to catch the dead bird before it hits ground. Trained, a falcon will fly free (at 100 m.p.h.) to pounce on game birds. The U.S. can use falcons, as other armies cannot, without endangering its own homing pigeons. Reason: the U.S. has developed night-flying homing pigeons...
...General Foods, his sponsor, that the company devotes more than three-quarters of its advertising appropriation for Jell-O to his show. Just what it costs to ballyhoo Jell-O is something General Foods keeps under its hat. But no secret is the staggering gross that Benny will rake in this year for 35 half-hour appearances before an NBC mike. The take: $630,000, out of which Benny pays for an orchestra, announcer, gagmen and his cast, leaving a gratifying net before taxes of some...
...sleeve-hearted age, when even General Washington could shed a distinguished tear over a drizzly romance. Its novels were luridly plotted to make up for the complete lack of individuality in their characters: seduced female, splendid rake, long-suffering wife, noble savage, etc. Popular was the Gothic atmosphere of ruins, nightingales, skeletons, poison vials...