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...dirigible, Los Angeles, largest of the United States Navy fleet. made am unexpected rip to Boston and vicinity shortly after dusk last night. The great ship, which is the only, one of its size in this country since the ill-fated Shenandoah disaster in 1927, circled over Cambridge bound for parts unknown...
Rattling Ships? The decks and super structures of such mighty ships as the Majestic and Leviathan rip slightly during heavy storms. William Hovgaard (Mass. Institute of Technology) advised marine engineers, who must figure tearing stress of storms, to use more rivets on their ships and to strengthen the corners of deck houses...
...pain starts at a certain spot-generally on the temple or forehead, or in the eye. It bores right into the brain and spreads until one side of the head seems ready to rip away. Sometimes the pain passes to the same side of the neck and into the arm on that side. The pain is almost always confined to one side of the head. Hence, hemicrania, migraine, the megrims...
...small Idaho towns of Bovill, Orofino, Troy, Elk River, Moscow, Genesee, Lewiston, Orchard, Juliaetta and Kendrick, last week were hunting for a big hole in the earth. More superstitious citizens put their heads together, whispered of miracles. On Christmas Eve they had seen a strang light yellow light rip earthwards through the sky of northern Idaho. Then they heard a deafening crash. The flash was seen as far as Spokane, Wash., over 100 mi. Mrs. Joseph Holland, who said she saw it on her way home from church, described the phenomenon for newsgatherers as "three glowing stars surrounded...
...Hudson Valley's Catskills where Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle rolled ninepins with gnarled mountain gnomes for 20 years, there was great to-do last week. Woodstock's famed colony of artists, authors, actors, musicians, dilet- tantes and onlookers was preparing for its annual Maverick? Festival, a day-&-night bacchanale to which annually troop thousands of non-colonists to see arty fun. As the day (Aug. 29) approached indications were that in a long-standing feud between colonists and townsmen, the townsmen were for the moment a little ahead...