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...accusations of his neighbors at small Beulah, Mich. Those neighbors never did approve the resort for unmarried mothers and baby bastards which this retired Congregational clergyman operated at Beulah. They suspected that Brooks let poor babies die or even had them killed, that he buried them in the dune sand among the second growth birches of his 80-acre place where brambles and goat tracks quickly erased all trace of the graves...
Health Insurance. Because the medical profession has kicked up such sand, President Roosevelt sidestepped the question of health insurance. As a sop he proposed to distribute to the States the following sums for the following purposes...
...dreary winter day. A storm blew up, covered beach and carcass with a brawling smother of surf. Toiling waist-deep in the icy water, Andrews and Clark made fast the carcass as best they could. When the weather cleared the precious remains were finally found buried deep in the sand...
...weather was now so cold that the fishermen refused to work at any price, sat sucking their pipes by a fire. When Andrews and Clark shoveled out sand, the holes filled up with water. With knives they groped blindly in the puddles, taking out segments of backbone one at a time. Finally the fishermen took pity, pitched in, and within a week the bones were rescued and stacked up. But on checking over their chart the museum men discovered that two extremely important bones were missing: the thin little pelvic bones with vestigial thigh bones which show that...
...sand, an entirely different substance, supports weight quite well when undisturbed, but when piles are driven into it the whole mass suddenly liquefies and the piles sink. Quicksand is thus merely the upward flow of water through sand. Dry sand acts even more strangely; when all the air is pumped out, it becomes as hard as rock. This fact explains why foundations set on deep piles are usually safe...