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...soap." Norwood makes a deal with Grady Fring the Kredit King to drive an Olds 98 to New York, expenses paid and $50 clear. Fortified by a bottle of NuGrape and a nickel pack of Nabs, he sets out on a jocular junket that confronts him with the second shortest midget in show business, a hypnotized chicken, his future wife, and a climactic offer of employment as "night man at the worm ranch." If this is vaudeville, it is vaudeville with a vengeance. In a dry, wry Arkansas accent, Portis gently tells the home truth about the Norwoods...
Beginning with the light of shortest wave length (and thus the highest energy), they aimed a beam from the grating through a Pyrex cylinder containing hydrogen and deuterium iodide gas, which breaks down when exposed to light. When molecules of deuterium iodide were struck by photons in the light beam, they split into fast-moving atoms of deuterium and sluggish, heavier atoms of iodine. Some of the speeding deuterium atoms in turn collided with hydrogen molecules in the cylinder, knocking off one of the hydrogen atoms and combining with the other to form deuterium hydride...
Five years later occurred the most effective rebellion in Harvard's history; it was also the shortest and mildest. A large group of student simply gathered in the Yard to draw up a list of complaints against President Samuel Langdon, and demanded his dismissal. Shortly thereafter, Langdon quietly submitted his resignation...
...daily press were to hang out a sign like every other trade, it would have to read: 'Here men are demoralized in the shortest possible time on the largest possible scale for the lowest possible price...
...bank. For Auerbach, it was his ninth N.B.A. championship and the eighth in a row, a record unmatched in any professional sport. Bill Russell, who now takes over from Auerbach as coach, gave the valedictory. "Of all the Celtic teams," said he, "this is the shortest on ability and the longest on heart." Red stood by, puffing away like Vesuvius...