Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Familiar to residents of southern California is the grunion, or sand-smelt (Athenmdae), a little fish that comes out on the beach at high tide, stands on its tail and dances in the moonlight. But few Cahfornians have inquired into the reason tor this strange nocturnal dance. In the May issue of Field & Stream, Fisherman Neil Frost described a grunion run, explained the dance...
...much as a mile long, would reach the Earth and cause considerable damage. As a matter of fact, the atmosphere is the only thing which prevents all kinds and sizes of 'heavenly projectiles' from doing a great deal of harm on the Earth's surface; a grain of sand moving at a speed of 20 miles per second would easily penetrate a human being from head to foot...
...slide. They wore blue shirts, to improve the background. One S. A. Hamid, a Hindu, got his picture taken because he wore a picturesque beard, but he was soon beaten. Only 10% of the players used the old-fashioned penholder grip. Their rackets were faced with rubber, not sand or wood. The peculiar patter of the balls sounded like a storm of hollow hail, interrupted by happy squeals of "Good shot!" and "Beauty!" or disappointed grunts...
...earnings were $332,250, second to Sun Beau's all-time record of $356.044. His disposition was eccentric but calm. He liked to roll in sand every day, had a special sand pile to do it in. At the post or when traveling, he was intelligently placid. A great subject of racetrack conversation was the method of Phar Lap's training. In the U. S., horses are given constant rigorous tests for speed. Phar Lap engaged in almost no speed trials at all. He cantered slowly for long distances to improve his stamina, stretch all his muscles slowly...
...There was a man who built a house upon the sand. And the rains descended and the floods came and the winds blew and beat upon that house and it is still there, and will be till Hell freezes over; because the man that built it had brains enough to know what he was doing. Costs too much to build a house upon a rock...