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...mere ceremonial. Tanks, artillery and soldiers were displayed for Tunisia's-and Italy's-benefit. Two hundred eighty miles southeast of Tunis and 65 miles from the Italian-held Libyan frontier is France's desert Maginot Line of barbed wire, small forts and pillboxes buried in sand dunes...
Other reforms demanded by the waitresses include the installation of first aid kits in each of the Houses. Notice was also taken of the fact that Adams House waitresses were forced to count napkins sand de kitchen work in violation of the present contract...
...this very weekend at New Haven, says the Associated Press, "students began pushing parked cars into the streets and at one point a box used to store sand was overturned, and a free-for-all sand fight started." Now, in their immaturity, these Elis were striking at the very root of two hallowed institutions: the WPA sand pile project and the old New Haven custom of parking on the side-walk...
...began thumping in 1933 for an exposition along with the airport, on the ground that each would help build the other. Three years more and a fleet of dredges appeared off the wooded hump of Yerba Buena Island between San Francisco and Oakland and began pumping black sand from the Bay bottom, slopping it over Yerba Buena shoals. With the help of Army engineers, WPA labor and a grant of $6,250,000 from the Federal Government, a mile-long island was sucked from the Bay to serve as San Francisco's fairground in 1939 and its airport forever...
...Clams move by pushing their fleshy protuberance or "foot" into the sand, swelling out the tip so that it acts as an anchor, pulling itself after, repeating the process. Fresh-water hydras (primitive digesting stalks with predatory tentacles at the top) sometimes move by "somersaulting"-bending over, attaching their tentacles to the bottom, flipping over...