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...rainbow, as every schoolboy knows, is formed by the refraction (bending) of sunlight by raindrops. Optical engineers have known for some time that an artificial rainbow can be produced by passing light through certain crystals. An ingenious wartime application of this phenomenon is a rainbow gunsight...
...Other Day. . . ." Not until the following June did his family hear from him again. Then came a letter on cheap note paper, in John's schoolboy hand: "I am very happy for the other day I received the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest award you can receive in the arm forces. . . . Tell Pop his son is still tough. Tell Don thanks for the prayer they say in school...
...entered College last November with the Class of '48b, fresh from Tabor Academy, where he had copped the national interscholastic shot-put title. Previously during the past term, he had won easily at Tufts, Andover, and Exeter, switching in the two prep-school meets to the lighter 12 pound schoolboy shot...
Since Bonneville Dam was built in 1937, the great Chinook salmon, far & away the handsomest and most valuable fish in North America, has been fighting a game but losing battle for survival. As every schoolboy knows, the salmon lives under a mysterious compulsion: it must go back to its birthplace to spawn. The spawning grounds of the seagoing Chinook, which once supplied a tasty 17,000 tons a year to U.S. tables, are in the Columbia River's cool, green tributaries far up in the northwest mountains...
...Schoolboy Production." Stephen Hero was written when Joyce was 19 or 20, rewritten into the Portrait when he was about 30. The two books are significantly different. The Portrait is masterfully compressed and polished; Stephen Hero, covering Joyce's college years, is comparatively diffuse, though a more human, spontaneous and revealing study of an embryonic genius. Though Joyce dismissed it as a "schoolboy's production," it is sensitive and readable by almost anybody's standards. In the early draft Joyce is a more recognizable college student-swaggering, confused, arrogant, emotional, but brilliant...