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Italian Savoia-Marchetti bombers and German Junkers, with Italian, German and Spanish crews, appeared over Barcelona at altitudes of some 16,000 feet. They were thus nearly invisible, could be only faintly heard, and their bombs were preceded by no warning scream, such as an artillery shell gives. There was just a "swiss" and instantaneously thereafter the crash of 600 pounds of bomb tearing down through floor after floor of a building by its own weight, then the dull, shuddering, colossal detonation from the cellar. In accordance with Douhet, the objective was considered to be the whole city: the shattering...
...whole length of the plant, a slab slides from the furnaces' fiery maw onto the world's widest roller table-98 inches. Under the direction of a few men pushing buttons, it whizzes down the table considerably faster than Glenn Cunningham runs the mile. Whisssh, with a scream of scalding steam as cold water plays on it to wash off ash and scale, it dives under the first of ten "stands"- gigantic sets of rollers each as high as a three-story house and weighing as much as 450 tons apiece. As steam billows in a cloud...
Watchers on the river heard a woman scream as the oarsman, Phillip Brooks '39, settled into the chilly water, pulled his boat to shore, and was helped out by an obliging Metropolitan Police officer who had rushed to the scene to ask, "Did you fall...
Hearing that Castang also could talk with apes, an enterprising Toronto Star reporter went out to the Riverdale Zoo, had a keeper install a handset telephone in the cage of chimpanzees George & Josephine, put through a long distance call to Castang's Chicago hotel. With a "semi-scream," Castang summoned Josephine to the phone. At his whimpering mimicry of the chimpanzee mating call. Ape Josephine first looked startled, then so pleased that Ape George, becoming angry, shouldered his mate from the phone, pulled frantically at the cage's bars. With a sharp cough-like cry, Castang cursed George...
...Snow White was happy. She dreamed of a Prince who would some day come and take her away. Instead of a Prince, however, a fierce huntsman comes, sent by the Queen to take Snow White into the forest and kill her. So touching is her innocence, so terrible her scream of panic when she sees the sharp flame of the dagger, that the huntsman, rough as he is, cannot execute his mission; he sets Snow White free...