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...that the experiment works", was the reply which Professor E. L. Chaffee G. '11, Associate Professor of Physics at the University, made to a CRIMSON reporter last night, when interviewed concerning the work which is being carried on by the United States Government to determine whether or not electrified sand scattered by airplanes will cause clouds and fog banks to disappear...
...Severus. The city, 100 miles east of Tripoli, and about five miles from the sea at the present time, was formerly a seaport as the discovery of elaborate wharves proves. It was almost two miles square and the ruins are now buried in from 10 to 50 ft. of sand. A great palace, several statues and baths have been uncovered, and a series of columns nine metres high...
...Critics. The Literary Review. "In these parlous times of realism, Donn Byrne is the blade of green, romantic grass in a long, long stretch of sand. Baptize him 'Oasis' if you will...
...Tigris. An ancient merchant dreamt a dream of diamonds, acres of diamonds and, on awaking from sleep, went to a priest of Buddha to ask where he should go to find such riches. The priest told him that if he could find a river that flowed over white sand between high mountains, the bed of that river would be full of diamonds. The merchant sold his orchards, granaries, fields, gardens, and traveled "over all the world" until he died; but he never found the jewels of which, sleeping and waking, he dreamt; while the man to whom he had sold...
...blade of green, romantic grass in a long, long stretch of sand...