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Because it was found that students in Muncie, Ind.'s Central High School were using an air-shaft in the building for sur reptitious smoking, officials had it sealed up four years ago. Soon the passage was forgotten, new classes came and went, found other places in which to smoke...
...than a short-barreled revolver. Famed U. S. hunting bowmen: Captain Cassius Styles who every year kills mountain lions and cuts yew in Oregon; the late Dr. Saxton Pope who killed African lions, mountain lions, brown and grizzly bears; Arthur H. Young who one moonlit African night buried a shaft feather-deep in the heart of a 600 Ib. lion which died in 20 seconds...
...idea of seeing the Red Sox, but then they always lose. He wandered up to the Treasure Room and found only two students talking in an excessively loud tone about the rate of subway fares out to Dorchester. Coming out of Widener he espied University Hall and a bright shaft of hope entered the barren wilderness of his soul. The publicity office. They might tell him something of interest. But in response to his query for news he received only a vague release to the effect that one close to the President had nothing to say. Things had come...
...head and moved his lips silently. Also came the Vice President,* members of the Cabinet, a dozen Senators, nearly 100 members of the House. At Christ Church, too small for everybody, Bishop Coadjutor Henry Wise Hobson conducted the brief Episcopal service. At Spring Grove cemetery near the Longworth shaft of granite the Speaker was laid away in the ground while an airplane etched against a very blue sky dropped roses...
...last edition was just off the presses, the night shift of the Baltimore Post had just gone on duty one evening last week, when muffled explosions shook the composing room floor. Clouds of smoke bearing acrid fumes sent the printers flying for exits. Flames shot up the elevator shaft, mushroomed out through the four stories of the old triangular building. Some of the 35 occupants fought their way out through halls and stairways; others made for the fire escapes. One linotype operator, Joseph Douglass, did not wait for firemen to raise a ladder, jumped from the third floor, died...