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...Family were in Scotland. During the War, by order of Kaiser Wilhelm, his cousins in Buckingham Palace were never bombed, although nearby Trafalgar Square was bombed repeatedly. Still in place, but considered useless against today's heavy bombs, is "the Steel Helmet," a steel net supporting layers of sand bags strung under the roof of Buckingham Palace...
...Delacroix was an established painter, a friend of Chopin, Baudelaire, George Sand, already engaged in the speculations and experiments with color and form which have made many critics consider him the father of all modern painting. Copious, passionate, acute, the entries are studded with keen sidelights on Paris society, on music, the theatre, politics and science as well...
...corked and sealed, bobbed placidly this summer on the rolling bosom of the Pacific. Only too glad was the California State Fisheries Laboratory, which released them from its ship the Bluefin, to have lucky fishermen find them floating in the deep. For the bottles which contained not wine but sand and a return postcard, were released to test the ocean drift which carries the pelagic eggs and larvae of sardines. Last week it was reported that only 150 bottles had been found. The farthest traveler had drifted 400 miles south, to Lower California, in 38 days...
...commodities. At present the cost of the college's food bill has risen fifteen percent. Unless this upward turn ceases and backs down to the norm, the college may find it necessary to increase the rates and also lower the quality. The latter possibility is almost as intolerable as sand...
...somehow or other failed either to hit their objective or even to explode when they crashed on the ground. When the zero hour was over, the loyalist troops rushed out to investigate and carefully opened all the "dud" explosives that had fallen. Inside each projectile were large quantities of sand, and in each was a polite note saying, "These bombs won't explode. Greetings to our dear comrades from their German friends...