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Assembled Animalcula. Dr. Charles Manning Child of the University of Chicago spent last summer at the Scripps Biological Institute? at Miramar, Calif. There he collected some tiny animals of the sponge family (corymorpha, helmet-shaped bodies) ; ground them in a mortar until they were shapeless pulp; bolted the mess through fine silk. In the strained liquid were living corymorpha cells, single or in groups of small number. After the liquid stood a while, the cells collected into small spheres. Many of the spheres?assembled from originally different animals?developed into complete & healthy corymorphae...
These last years of Paul Claudel have been a little baffling to the Japanese. Here was a hard, shrewd statesman of the first rank who would draw a shapeless caricature for his dinner partner and remark with emphatic sincerity: "Madame, I would give my whole position and perhaps half my talent could I learn to draw or sculp...
...seeing that "Old, Old, Old Andrew Jackson" and "A Curse for the Saxaphone" will mysteriously appeal to their aesthetic tastes as well as amuse and stir them. On the surface, there are few signs that there is any aesthetic content there. The best things in this book are as shapeless as the mountains that obsess their author. There is either a tremendous and subtle artistry in this seeming shapelessness or else Mr. Lindsay is gifted with a rare instinct for the proper thing to do, an instinct so profound that he does not comprehend it himself or even realize that...
...There is grave danger that the cracks and fissures which have developed in the Sphinx may cause it to break up into shapeless chunks of stone, unless the efforts at restoration now being made by the Egyptian Government are successful...
...left Tazreut. First, marched 20 fierce Riffian guards, armed hip and thigh. Second, came a huge, ill-fashioned sedan chair, supported at each corner by a pole and carried by 16 husky men. Inside the sedan box was Raisuli, reclining on soft carpets and magnificent cushions. Over his paunchy, shapeless face he wore a turban; under if, his little black eyes rolled and blazed alternately in pain and fury. His black-dyed beard was partially hidden in the soft, white woolen garments which swathed his bloated body. Third, came four of Raisuli's favorite wives, perched on Spanish mules...